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.
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“But it Does Move!”, and Other Legends About Galileo Galilei
MBS TEXTE 116 28 Theses regarding the trial of Galileo Galilei (Updated and enlarged version 2012)
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Is there a Contradiction between the two Creation Accounts?
MBS TEXTE 114 The alleged contradiction between the two reports in Genesis 1 and 2 has unfortunately become the prevailing opinion of our society. Even various translations of the Scriptures have adopted it. The historical-critical theory assumes, on the basis of the names of God used in them, that the the two narratives originated from separated sources, an elohistic one and a yahwistic one, and believes them to be two completely unreconcilable conceptions.
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¿Una ética especial para los últimos tiempos?
MBS TEXTE 70 Como argumento para lo que se puede o lo que no se debe hacer en la iglesia, la evangelización e incluso en la política, escuchamos frecuentemente la aseveración de que estamos viviendo en los últimos tiempos y que tenemos que tomar esto en consideración.