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In a guest lecture at Westminster Theological Seminary, a Reformed flagship seminary in Philadelphia, Thomas Schirrmacher, the Chair of the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance, described and discussed landslide changes in the Catholic Church and in global Christianity.
„Du bist Israels Lehrer und weißt das nicht?“ Jan Fleischauer hat zu Recht darauf hingewiesen, wie merkwürdig es ist, dass Margot Käßmann in ihrer Verteidigung des radikalen Pazifismus die Frage des Bösen in der Welt […]
Der neueste Band des Jahrbuchs des Martin Bucer Seminars greift ein ‚heißes Eisen‘ der Theologie auf. Es geht um die trinitätstheologische Frage, von wem der Heilige Geist ausgeht. Abendländische Theologen haben das (zumindest seit Augustinus) […]
A foundation for democracy In the last blog we saw that the statement “all people are sinners” has eminent socio-political and political significance. The statement that all people are sinners also constitutes a significant foundation […]
A Basis for fighting social and structural evil In my last two blog entries, I addressed the statement “all people are sinners.” This statement also has noteworthy sociopolitical and political significance. The statement means that […]
Judeo-Christian anthropology (the study of humankind) lives with a peculiar tension. On the one hand, humanity is created in “the image of God” and endowed with unbelievable abilities and complexity. On the other hand, humankind […]