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Everything Is Grace

Eugen Drewermann Everything Is Grace Paths to Paul’s Epistle to the Romans Like no other text in the New Testament, the Epistle to the Romans highlights the core themes of Christianity: Only when we feel fundamentally entitled to our existence are we capable of doing good. Laws and commandments...

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The Meaning of Politics is Freedom

Winfried Kretschmann The Meaning of Politics is Freedom Why Hannah Arendt Gives Us Confidence in Difficult Times Winfried Kretschmann makes no secret of the fact that Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) has long been an inspiration to him. As combative as she was controversial during her lifetime, the...

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Pope Leo XIV

Stefan von Kempis Pope Leo XIV Who He Is – How He Thinks – What Awaits Him and Us He is the first American to lead the 1.4 billion Catholics throughout the world: Robert Francis Prevost, born in 1955, was elected in a surprisingly short conclave to succeed Pope Francis and took the name of Leo XIV....

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Total Strangers

Ulrich Merkl Total Strangers Autism in Pop Culture: Media, Myths and People Ever since Rain Man arrived at theatres in 1988, autism has become a pop-cultural phenomenon in novels, films and TV series. Characters such as Sherlock Holmes, Mr. Spock, Temperance Brennan, Sheldon Cooper or Ella Schön...

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The End of a Dream

Andreas G. Weiss The End of a Dream Donald Trump and the 250th anniversary of the USA The United States will celebrate the 250th anniversary of its founding in 2026. Andreas G. Weiss already astutely outlined the profound erosion of American society in his 2019 book Donald Trump: Du sollst keine...

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What Sustains Human Beings

Eugen Drewermann What Sustains Human Beings Approaches to St. Paul’s Letter to the Galatians Jesus brought God back to us as a fatherly power that we do not need to fear but in whose unconditional love we can trust. Eugen Drewermann sees St. Paul as perhaps the first person to fully grasp this...

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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…«...

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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...

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»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...

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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...