Values

Michael Korth Values Foundation and Future of Our Culture Our values determine what we consider meaningful, what we strive for and who we trust. Living together in a community and even the coexistence of cultures is only possible on the basis of shared values. Passing on values is one – and...

Breaking Through the Cycle of Failure

Klaus Mertes Breaking Through the Cycle of Failure So That Coming to Terms with Abuse Doesn't End Up at the Start Again Since the sexual abuse at the Canisius College in Berlin came to light in 2010, the persons involved and the public experienced an avalanche of failed attempts by the Church to...

Retreat or Crusade?

Michael Blume Retreat or Crusade? The Crisis of Christianity and the Danger of Fundamentalism What is the future of Christianity as the largest world religion on the planet? Are the many internal and external crises that Christianity must overcome signs of its imminent demise, as some say? Parallel...

After Corona

Franz Alt After Corona Reshaping Our Future Franz Alt's current book is thoroughly optimistic. We have learned much during the Corona pandemic and have concentrated all of our forces to withstand a life-threatening and global catastrophe. This includes recognising scientific findings, planning...

World Religions

World Religions As If He Was Listening Rainer Maria Rilke's Dialogue with the Buddha Karl-Josef Kuschel Further details In the Flow of Things Hermann Hesse and Bertolt Brecht in the Dialogue with Buddha, Lao Tzu and Zen Karl-Josef Kuschel Further details »That We Are All Children of Abraham…«...

In the Flow of Things

Karl-Josef Kuschel In the Flow of Things Hermann Hesse and Bertolt Brecht in the Dialogue with Buddha, Lao Tzu and Zen »Under heaven nothing is more soft and yielding than water. And yet, for attacking the solid and strong, nothing is better; it has no equal« (Tao Te Ching). Hermann Hesse and...

»That We Are All Children of Abraham…«

Karl-Josef Kuschel »That We Are All Children of Abraham…« Helmut Schmidt Meets Anwar as-Sadat: A Religious Conversation on the Nile Two world-renowned statesmen, Helmut Schmidt and Anwar as-Sadat, meet in December 1977. The Egyptian President had made a significant gesture of peace: his trip to...

Elie Wiesel - A Life Against Forgetting

Reinhold Boschki Elie Wiesel - A Life Against Forgetting Memories of a Companion Elie Wiesel, born ninety years ago, is one of the most defining figures of the 20th century. Born as the son of a devout Jewish grocer in the Carpathians (Hungary at that time), he was deported to Auschwitz at the age...

God’s Presence in Judaism and Christianity: A Conversation

Henry G. Brandt / Walter Kardinal Kasper / Jörg Bremer God’s Presence in Judaism and Christianity: A Conversation Edited by Jörg Bremer The conversation between two witnesses of the century: Walter Kasper, German theologian and cardinal, spent many years as the head of the Vatican Commission of the...

Knowing More About Islam

Horst Graebe Knowing More About Islam For a Good Coexistence with Muslims The topics and texts of this volume have been developed over years in events of encounter and discussion. They answer the »genuine« questions as they arise in the daily coexistence of Muslims and the mainstream society....