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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.
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.
The Co-Director of the International Institute for Religious Freedom (IIRF), Prof. Dr. Christof Sauer, has updated his suggestions for an appropriate use of the World Watch List on the occasion of the release of the Index.
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 …
