Observations on Apologetics and Its Relation to Contemporary Christian Mission
ARTICLE Christians often think of apologetics as something that only academics do, but actually it has always been an essential part of Christian mission.
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Living in the Last Days?
ARTICLE 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.
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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
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Immigration: How can Integration succeed?
SPEECH 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
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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.”
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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.
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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.