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Thomas Schirrmacher has now published in English his speech “Integration is Possible,” delivered at the award ceremony for famous Muslim Professor Bassam Tibi at the University of Frankfurt on November 21, 2019.
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
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.”
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.
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.
MBS TEXTE 116 28 Theses regarding the trial of Galileo Galilei (Updated and enlarged version 2012)
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.
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 …
