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Schirrmacher and Johnson at the Vatican Protestant Choir, the “Thomanerchor” from Leipzig, participates in papal mass (BQ 262, Bonn, 03.07.2013) The executive chair of the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance, Thomas Schirrmacher, was […]
By means of the decision to elect a non-European, the Catholic Church has clearly accepted and given prominence to the fact that the center of gravity of world Christianity has shifted to the global south. […]
“Christian Witness in a Multi-Religious World: Recommendations for Conduct” published (Bonner Querschnitte no. 172 – 18/2011, June 29, 2011) “Today represents an historic moment in our shared Christian witness,” claimed Jean-Louis Cardinal Tauran, president of […]
ARTICLE Despite much ambivalence in the relationship between Christianity and democracy, there are reasons why determined Christians and minority churches have called for secular democracy, have advanced it, and have helped to stabilize it.
This is a comment on the second encyclica by Pope Benedict XVI. I praise it for its exegetical approach and every Protestant will love it except for the last two paragraphs.
This history of indulgences and purgatory has established itself as a standard summary of the history of the theological development in stages leading to the full orbed view of the 15th century and a praxis that led to split the church.
Zu meinem Vortrag ‚Sola Gratia’ auf den ‚Internationalen Studientagen’ des Arche Studienzentrums in Hamburg unter dem Gesamtthema „Die ‚Sola’ der Reformation“ schrieb Thomas Josiger in einem Presseartikel: ...