Download e-book for kindle: Sternstunden der Theologie: Schlüsselerlebnisse christlicher by Alf Christophersen

Dem Apostel Paulus erschien vor Damaskus der auferstandene Christus, zu Augustinus sprach eine Kinderstimme «Nimm und lies! », Luther hatte sein «Turmerlebnis», Pascal nähte die Erinnerung an eine imaginative and prescient in seinen Mantel, und Martin Luther King hatte einen Traum von Freiheit und Gleichheit. Ob mystische imaginative and prescient oder plötzliche Einsicht: Von den religiösen Schlüsselerlebnissen aus können Leben und Werk großer Theologinnen und Theologen auf einprägsame Weise erschlossen werden.

Download e-book for kindle: Neither Angel nor Beast: The Life and Work of Blaise Pascal by Francis X.J. Coleman

Blaise Pascal started as a mathematical prodigy, built right into a physicist and inventor, and had turn into by way of the top of his existence in 1662 a profound non secular philosopher. As a thinker, he used to be such a lot confident through the lengthy culture of scepticism, and so refused – like Kierkegaard – to construct a philosophical or theological method.

Waiting in Christian Traditions: Balancing Ideology and - download pdf or read online

Christians look ahead to prayers to be replied, for an afterlife in heaven, for the Virgin Mary to seem, and for God to talk. They wait to be liberated from oppression, to be “saved” or born back, for Easter morning to sunrise, for therapeutic, for conversion, and for baptism. ready and the discontentment and desire that frequently accompany it are defined in phrases which are, first and foremost look, remarkably invariant throughout Christian traditions: what is going to take place will take place “on God’s time.

Download e-book for iPad: Volume 5, Tome III: Kierkegaard and the Renaissance and by Jon Stewart

The lengthy interval from the Renaissance to the 19th century provided a variety of resources for Kierkegaard's suggestion in any variety of various fields. the current, relatively heterogeneous quantity covers the lengthy interval from the start of Savonarola in 1452 in the course of the starting of the 19th century and into Kierkegaard's personal time.