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  • Towards a Theology  of Martyrdom

    Towards a Theology of Martyrdom

    After a short introduction, showing that suffering, persecution and martyrdom have been prominent in the theology of the Early Church, and that the Bible speaks about them constantly, the main part of the article outlines 18 examples of Bible texts and Bible topics. These have often been neglected, as the subject has not been seen as integral to Scripture, to the church and to mission.

    3. November 2020 / Articles, Persecution of Christians

     
  • Living in the Last Days?

    Living in the Last Days?

    I have been ask to provide a short version of my essay ‘Do We Need a Special Ethics for the Last Days?’. Peirong Lin, our research coordinator, was so nice to provide it, here it is.

    22. April 2020 / Articles, Special ethical topics, ProMundis Blog

     
  • On current occasion: Do We Need a Special Ethics for the Last Days?

    On current occasion: Do We Need a Special Ethics for the Last Days?

    MBS TEXTE 56 In hard times we recognize the urgency of God’s unchanging will

    2. April 2020 / Articles, Systematic Theology / Dogmatics, Ethics

     
  • Thomas Schirrmacher during his lecture in honor of Bassam Tibi at Frankfurt University © BQ/Martin Warnecke

    Immigration: How can Integration succeed?

    Address upon the presentation of the 2019 Intellectual Pioneer Prize to Prof. Dr. Bassam Tibi on November 21, 2019 in the Banquet Hall of the University of Frankfurt

    21. January 2020 / Articles, Special topics Society, Special topics politics, Special topics sociology, Islam

     
  • Putting Rumours to Rest

    Putting Rumours to Rest

    MBS TEXTE 152 Everyone knows that malignant gos- sip at the expense of others is incongruous with love, and it is for this reason the New Testament, in an old Luther translation, warns about someone who “secretly maligns” and spreads “malicious gossip.”

    20. January 2020 / Articles, Bible, Special topics theology

     
  • Democracy and Christian Ethics

    Democracy and Christian Ethics

    MBS TEXTE 143 Despite much ambivalence towards the relationship between Christianity and democracy, there are reasons that convinced Christians and minority churches have called for secular democracy, have moved it forward, and have helped to stabilize it.

    20. January 2020 / Articles, Democracy, Special ethical topics

     
  • Is it appropriate that Arab Christians call God Allah?

    Is it appropriate that Arab Christians call God Allah?

    MBS TEXTE 142 In the following I want to examine the demand that Arab Christians should not address God as Allah in prayer, and that we should never render the Arabic term “Allah” as “Gott” in German (resp. “God” in English). This demand that was specifically directed towards Peter Beyerhaus and Christine Schirrmacher.

    20. January 2020 / Articles, Special topics theology, Vergleichende Religionswissenschaften

     
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Über michProf. Dr. theol. Dr. phil. Thomas Schirrmacher, PhD, DD, (born 1960) is President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights, and Secretary General of the World Evangelical Alliance, which networks churches with appr. 600 million conservative Protestant Christians, chair of its theological commission, and director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom (Bonn, Cape Town, Colombo, Brasilia), the largest research network for religious freedom and against persecution of Christians and other religions and world views. Read more …

 

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