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Der Journalist Stefan Loipfinger hat auf seiner privaten Webseite CharityWatch meine Person als Vorsitzender des Vereins Hilfe Weltweit e. V. (Köln) übel angegriffen und mir „zweifelhaftes Verhalten“ und Verstoß gegen die Moral vorgeworfen. Er beschwert […]
The Catholic systematic theologian William J. Hoye, who teaches at the State University in Muenster (Westfalia), has rightly emphasized that candid rational discourse between all parties involved in democracies is based upon inviolable ‘truths’ [William […]
The newly elected Chairman of the Theological Commission of the World Evangelical Alliance, Professor Thomas Schirrmacher, has made his first official inaugural visit, which led him to the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, in the form of a courtesy call. The one-hour audience in the Patriarch’s study was followed by lunch together.
My great grandfather Friedrich Wilhelm Schirrmacher (1824–1904) belonged to a close circle of students of Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886), obtained his doctorate under Ranke [see Wolfgang Weber. Biographisches Lexikon zur Geschichtswissenschaft in Deutschland, Österreich und der […]
My great grandfather Friedrich Schirrmacher, who was the director of the Petrischule in Danzig, left behind the following handwritten confession of faith
Der Kirchenvater Aurelius Augustinus schrieb um 427 n. Chr. ob der schieren Fülle seiner Bücher ein eigenes Buch ‚Retractationes‘ (dt. ‚Rückbesinnungen‘), in dem er rückblickend erläutert, was er früher falsch gesehen und geschrieben hatte. Dies […]
Mein Buch ‚Internetpornografie‘ ist in Russland auf Russisch erschienen
Archbishop and Professor Dr. Thomas Paul Schirrmacher is President of the International Council of the International Society for Human Rights, President of the International Institute for Religious Freedom, Co-President of Religions for Peace and President of the Bonn Abrahamic Center for Global Peace, Justice and Sustainability (BAC). Read more …
