Religiøse problemstillinger og debatter

Romanen om Absalons liv og død hviler på et stort og dybtgående kendskab til de samtidige kilder, vi har om ham. Det er lykkedes at skabe et portræt af Absalon både som trofast familiemedlem, loyal undersåt for kongerne, ven til Vilhelm af Æbelholt og et dybt religiøst menneske. Det sidste er noget, som savnes i næsten alle moderne fremstillinger af ham - han bliver gjort til kriger­bisp. Romanen viser, at det kun var én side af et kompliceret menneske.

"For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church" is, according to Archbishop Elpidophoros of America, "a mature and reasoned discourse about our engagement with the world and with each other for Orthodox Christians and all people of good will. This text offers to the reader, who is willing to listen, insight and guidance on how to participate in life in the world, while enjoying the life in the Spirit." It is a helpful roadmap--steeped in Orthodox wisdom--essential for navigating the many modern-day challenges we face.

What does it take to report from conflict zones? What good is neutrality in the face of suffering, and how much difference can one person make?From her first journalistic assignment in Gaza to covering the Arab Spring in Egypt, Sherine Tadros searched for ways to change people's lives for the better.It wasn't until her life fell apart that she found the courage to pursue her true purpose. With compassion and verve, Tadros now shares her remarkable journey, from witnessing injustice to fighting it in the corridors of power. In probing the line between journalism and activism, her memoir Taking Sides demonstrates why stories matter - and how we can all use our voices to inspire meaningful change.

A small group of "elites" has been working for decades to undermine America. They've been making us poorer while they get richer, taking away our jobs but never losing theirs, violating our rights while protecting their own, and putting us in danger while they remain safe and sound.Who exactly are these "elites"? What have they been doing to America? And how can we take back our country before it's too late? In Beat The Elites, Ashley Hayek reveals the answers. She exposes the war against the people by the elites with explosive-often shocking-facts. And she provides the hands-on tools every patriot needs to use right now to save America.

Der Jude Jesus Christus hat keine Kirche gegründet, geschweige Sakramente erfunden.Ihr Machtimperium verdankt die katholische Kirche dem Dekret "Cunctos populos", das sie am 27. Februar 380 n. Chr. zur römischen Staatsreligion machte. Theologie als Wissenschaft ist höchst bedenklich. Sie ist keine "freie", sondern eine "befohlene", somit keine "wahre" Wissenschaft.Die Priesterweihe ist eine Lizenzvergabe zum Lügen und Betrügen.Nur durch die Taufe kommst du in den Himmel, andere sind Menschen 2. Klasse.Bußsakrament und letzte Ölung dienen der gezielten Vermögensanreicherung.Regierungen finanzieren und fördern diesen Konzern jährlich mit Milliarden.Nahtoderfahrungen sind allgemein bekannt, ebenso Kontakte mit Verstorbenen.Jenseits - Forschung und Wissenschaft ist unsere Zukunft!

چرا اسلام و تفسیر قرآن

In A World of Political Turmoil and Spiritual Confusion, Where Should You Stand?Countless believers are ensnared in a web of confusion-unsure about how to engage, vote, and pray in these tumultuous times. How does God see your nation? What is He truly saying? And most importantly, are you ready to listen?Bestselling author and leading prophetic voice Emma Stark unveils a heavenly road map for those perplexed about how to pray, vote, and engage with the burning issues of our time. You're invited to shift beyond earthly solutions into a heavenly perspective where spiritual clarity reigns.Through divine insights and years of experience, Emma reveals:The pivotal role that prophets play in molding society and guiding nations to their divine purpose.Insights into discerning the whispers of the Holy Spirit amidst the clamor of politics and governance.Practical strategies to sidestep satan's traps and avoid mere temporal fixes for profound spiritual challenges.This isn't just about the future of nations. It's a call to rise higher and aim beyond mere human strategies. This is about the legacy you will leave for the generations to come. Step into a prophetic perspective and become a transformative force for the Kingdom.

Through the hermeneutical lens of human-animal studies, this volume explores how biblical texts help construct a precise image of animals and assign them a precise role within society. In this regard, three central moments are considered: (a) Creation narratives: Examining the two creation narratives shows how these are functional in creating a hierarchy within the animal kingdom, elevating domestic animals over other animals and positioning humans as God's privileged interlocutors. (b) Biblical Legislation: The second part explores how legal codes frame animals as 'objects' in a human-centered relationship, reinforcing a definite hierarchical social order. However, it also reveals instances where animals assume the role of 'legal subjects' with associated responsibilities. (c) Institution of sacrifices: The third section explores how sacrifices in the Hebrew Bible shape the perception of animals and determine their social role. A comparative approach between ritual texts in Leviticus and references to sacrifices in prophetic texts opens up different perspectives on the suffering of animals during sacrifices.

Political, economic and military powers have woefully failed in their attempts to transform societies around the world, particularly in the African context. As poverty, corruption, and bad leadership continue to pervade nations and undermine human flourishing, the global community needs to respond with creativity, innovation and collaboration.Drawing on empirical research and utilizing an interdisciplinary approach that engages both development and theology, this study explores the church's role - both spiritual and pragmatic - in facilitating societal transformation in African countries, specifically Nigeria. The power of religion is often overlooked within development frameworks, but is a profoundly significant resource. Highlighting the importance of ecclesiastical leadership in mobilizing religious communities to partner with sociopolitical and economic institutions, Dr. Obaji Agbiji argues for a development framework that recognizes religious practitioners as indispensable partners in the quest for societal transformation.Offering insight for both scholars and practitioners, this sustainable transformative approach to development bridges the gap between theory and practice and challenges church and civil leadership to take concrete steps to combat societal ills and see nations transformed for the better.

¿Qué nos depara el futuro? ¿Se dirige esta nación a una calamidad? ¿O acaso será todo el mundo? ¿Y qué necesitas saber para sobrevivir, mantenerte firme y prevalecer en los días venideros? El manifiesto de Josías te llevará en un viaje profético desde una isla del Caribe a Washington DC --la capital de Estados Unidos--. ¡Y mucho, mucho más!

L'objet du présent ouvrage est donc de poursuivre l'enquête que j'ai commencée dans Révolution mondiale, en retraçant le cheminement des idées révolutionnaires à travers les sociétés secrètes depuis les temps les plus reculés, en n'indiquant le rôle des Juifs que là où il est clairement décelable, mais en ne cherchant pas à les impliquer là où il n'y a pas de preuves suffisantes. C'est pourquoi je ne baserai pas mes affirmations sur des ouvrages simplement "antisémites", mais principalement sur les écrits des Juifs eux-mêmes. De même, en ce qui concerne les sociétés secrètes, je m'appuierai autant que possible sur les documents et les aveux de leurs membres, point sur lequel j'ai pu recueillir un grand nombre de données nouvelles qui corroborent entièrement ma thèse précédente. Il doit être entendu que je ne me propose pas de faire une histoire complète des sociétés secrètes, mais seulement des sociétés secrètes dans leurs rapports avec le mouvement révolutionnaire. Je n'essaierai donc pas de décrire les théories de l'occultisme ni d'enquêter sur les secrets de la franc-maçonnerie, mais simplement de relater l'histoire de ces systèmes afin de montrer la manière dont ils ont été utilisés dans un but subversif. Si je ne parviens pas à convaincre les incrédules de l'existence de forces secrètes de révolution, ce ne sera pas faute de preuves.

"Right and Wrong addresses the chief problems Christians have responding to the myriad economic, political, and public health challenges we all face. The author uses a relatively simple approach learned in Christian ethics class as a seminarian. As the pandemic continued and issues succeeded one another in the headlines, he wrote down how that simple approach, grounded in a particular definition of the primary New Testament term for Christian love-agape-, remains both intellectually and spiritually robust enough to serve as a guide for Christians and others of good will"--

The hour is critical. The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Conflicts, hostility, and incivility now threaten to tear the country apart. Competing visions have led to a dangerous moment of cultural self-destruction. This is no longer politics as usual, but an era of political warfare where our enemies are not foreign adversaries, but our fellow citizens.Yet the roots of the crisis are deeper than many realize. Os Guinness argues that we face a fundamental crisis of freedom, as America's genius for freedom has become her Achilles' heel. Our society's conflicts are rooted in two rival views of freedom, one embodied in "1776" and the ideals of the American Revolution, and the other in "1789" and the ideals of the French Revolution. Once again America has become a house divided, and Americans must make up their minds as to which freedom to follow. Will the constitutional republic be restored or replaced?This grand treatment of history, civics, and ethics in the Jewish and Christian traditions represents Guinness's definitive exploration of the prospects for human freedom today. He calls for a national conversation on the nature of freedom, and poses key questions for concerned citizens to consider as we face a critical chapter in the American story. He offers readers a checklist by which they can assess the character and consequences of the freedoms they are choosing.In the tradition of Alexis de Tocqueville, Guinness provides a visitor's careful observation of the American experiment. Discover here a stirring vision for faithful citizenship and renewed responsibility for not only the nation but also the watching world.

Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world.'An astonishing book about an extraordinary subject' PETER FRANKOPAN'As thrilling as it is sweeping' TOM HOLLAND'This book dazzles in its originality . . . a triumph' SATHNAM SANGHERAIn 1811, a twelve-year-old girl uncovered some strange-looking bones in Britain's southern shoreline. They belonged to no known creature and were buried beneath a hundred feet of rock. Over the next two decades, as several more of these 'impossible monsters' emerged from the soil, the leading scientists of the day were forced to confront a profoundly disturbing possibility: the Bible, as a historical account of the Earth's origins, was wildly wrong.This is the dramatic story of the crisis that engulfed science and religion when we discovered the dinosaurs. It takes us into the lives and minds of the extraordinary men and women who made these heretical discoveries, those who resisted them, as well as the pioneering thinkers, Darwin most famous among them, who took great risks to construct a new account of the earth's and mankind's origins.Impossible Monsters is the riveting story of a group of people who not only thought impossible things but showed them to be true. In the process they overturned the literal reading of the Bible, liberated science from the authority of religion and ushered in the secular age.'Truly marvellous ... an intellectual thriller' RICHARD HOLMES'A stunning work ... of surprises and revelations' STEVE BRUSATTE*Chosen by the Times Literary Supplement, Waterstones and Bloomberg as a Book of the Year 2024*

This book takes a close look at Shakespeare's engagement with the flurry of controversy and activity surrounding the concept of conversion in post-Reformation England. For playhouse audiences during the period, conversional thought encompassed a markedly diverse, fluid amalgamation of ideas, practices, and arguments centered on the means by which an individual could move from one category of identity to another. In an analysis that includes chapter-length readings of The Taming of the Shrew, Henry IV Part I, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and The Tempest, the book argues that Shakespearean drama made a unique and substantive intervention in public discourse surrounding conversion, and continues to speak meaningfully about conversional experience for audiences in the present age. It will be of particular benefit to students and scholars with an interest in theatrical history, performance theory, theology, cultural studies, race studies, and gender studies.

Das Anliegen der vorliegenden Untersuchung ist es, mit der Theorie der multiplen Differenzierung einen soziologischen Blick auf Religion und die besonderen Übersetzungsverhältnisse am Beispiel der organisations- und milieuspezifischen Lage der Aleviten in der Türkei zu werfen. Dabei werden die spezifischen Anerkennungs-, Aushandlungs- und Transformationsprozesse der alevitischen Glaubensgemeinschaft betrachtet. Elif Y¿ld¿zl¿ arbeitet die Spannungen im Kontext von Religion in der modernen Gesellschaft und die Paradoxien zwischen verschiedenen (religiösen) Formen und der Funktion der sozialen Integration heraus. Dafür ist die Konzeptualisierung der Differenzierung u. a. zwischen (alevitischer) Organisation und (alevitischem) Milieu notwendig. Somit trägt diese Arbeit mit einer aufwendigen theoretisch-empirischen Analyse zur (religions-) soziologischen Erforschung verschiedener Integrationsformen der Aleviten bei als Beispiel für die Ausdifferenzierung einer neuen religiösen Milieutypologie.

Ekstremist og tidligere bandemedlem afslører terrorplaner og viser vejen tilbage til samfundet.Had er et magtfulgt redskab og en trofast følgesvend. I størstedelen af sit ekstreme liv har Yaqoub Ali været drevet af had.Mit had er en hudløst ærlig og kritisk biografi om ekstremisme, had og håb. Og en afsløring af terrorplaner mod Dronningens slot Rosenborg i København, som blev stoppet af PET.Det er fortællingen om at vokse op i et krigshærget Irak, komme til Danmark og vælge en kriminel livsbane, om afsoning i fængslet og blive formand for jihadister i Kaldet til Islam.Hadet drev ham til at hjernevaske unge muslimer til ekstremisme, opfordrer til terror, undertrykke sin familie og i sidste ende rejse til Syrien for at kæmpe for Kalifatet.En ny fængselsdom og mødet med en socialrådgiver blev begyndelsen på et nyt liv med familien. Og forsøget på et farvel til det had, der har styret alt - men som også er det eneste, han ved, han er virkelig god til.

Nigeria presents an enthralling case study for understanding developing architypes in interreligious encounters in Africa. The global community needs a cultural understanding and sensitivity for productive engagement with the Arab and non-Arab Muslim world. The Nigeria religious exigencies provide a requisite intelligence into the challenges facing a global community seeking to foster peace. Without a domain of tolerance, love, equity and justice, Nigeria will continually be immured by pessimism, parochialism, cynicism and mutual suspicion. Despite being the largest economy in Africa and the most populous Black country, Nigeria demonstrates incessantly an uncommon fault-line between Christianity and Islam.The significance of this goes beyond the borders of Nigeria but has become a global showcase anywhere the two religions exist contemporaneously. Nigeria is the nexus between west and central Africa. Rooted in the dusty Sahel of the north, the savannah plains, the rich rainforests of the Atlantic coast, the rocky hills of the West, and the oil-filled swamps of the Delta. Nigeria is the beauty, sound, vision, passion and the soul of the African continent.In Nigeria, the Nigeria Pentecostal-Charismatic Movement possesses a distinctive flair that demands a holistic understanding of the movement's historical, cultural, fundamental and religious dimensions in a multifarious religious landscape. The disquisition of the movement's political cognizance, identity, power, authority, theology, popular culture, ethics and missiological impact in northern Nigeria presents a fine embroidery of their trials, frustrations and challenges, but inveterate in faith, hope and love that opens up innovative panoramas of peaceful dialogical prospects and coexistence between Christians and Muslims in northern Nigeria.In Nigeria - Politics, Religion, Pentecostal-Charismatic Power and Challenges, Akintayo Emmanuel reconnoiters the complex missiological hindrances challenging the Nigerian Pentecostal-Charismatic Movement. Their contextual missional landslide disheveled with complicated paradoxes in the way the Christian majority have responded to Muslims in northern Nigeria is anatomized. The Nigerian Pentecostal-Charismatic Movement's puissance to solve some of Nigeria political, ideological, cultural and spiritual dimensions of crisis and sectarian violence is achievable if the movement can mitigate her missiological hindrances.The responses of Nigerian Pentecostal-Charismatic Movement to Nigeria's socio-political and ethno-religious complexities can construct a great future for the soul of Nigeria. They do not only have the capacity to provide the Christian alternatives to Nigeria's peculiarities, they can also stimulate Nigeria's deification among other nations by continuing to dis...

¿Cómo puede el pueblo de Dios desarrollar iglesias de manera que ayuden y no perjudiquen a los barrios pobres? En el ministerio urbano, los cristianos con demasiada frecuencia tratan a los pobres como proyectos de buena voluntad en lugar de personas. Debido a esta mentalidad, muchos permanecen sin ir a la iglesia. Se necesitan iglesias urbanas, locales y saludables porque combinan el empoderamiento personal y la transformación comunitaria. Cada barrio pobre necesita iglesias poco comunes que busquen el bien común de sus comunidades. Alvin Sanders aborda duras verdades sobre estos vecindarios y proporciona un modelo de cómo ejercer el ministerio en condiciones difíciles. La iglesia local y urbana es la clave para la transformación comunitaria, ya que desempeña tres funciones cruciales: empoderar, asociarse y alcanzar. Los pastores y plantadores de iglesias interesados en el desarrollo de la comunidad cristiana encontrarán aquí ideas prácticas sobre el poder de la iglesia local. Las iglesias pueden servir a sus comunidades y mejorar la calidad de vida de todos los aspectos del vecindario.