John F Kennedy’s Rice Moon Speech 50 years later
No man can fully grasp how far and how fast we have come, but condense, if you will, the 50,000 years of man¹s recorded history in a time span of but a half-century. Stated in these terms, we know very little about the first 40 years, except at the end of them advanced man had...
DSK Conspiracy – Cui Bono
Cui Bono DSK Conspiracy Die gesamte amerikanische und europäische Presse hätte sich lächerlich gemacht, wenn die NYP – Bild von New York korrekt berichtet. “The Sofitel maid who accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of a sex attack in his suite wasn’t just a hotel hooker — she continued to work as a prostitute in a Brooklyn hotel where she was stashed by prosecutors, The Post has learned”. DSK wurde am 15. Mai festgehalten. Einige Tage später war er im Begriff, weichere Lösungen für die...
Taking a stand for Christianity
“Truth is not determined by a majority vote.” ― Pope Benedict XVI What we are seeing in our time is a generation, where truth is relative to what people wish to believe. Those with this mindset have now infiltrated and are actively taking over our Christian institutions. It is influenced by a Science of Religion that was...
My Chinese horoscope sign of Serpent
Everywhere the symbol of the serpent and dragon ist connected with the (d)evil. That does hurt me a little bit, as I am Serpent in the Chinese Zodiac – which is the least favored sign. The snake has a bad rap not only according to my wife, but certainly within Christianity. In defense of myself...
Conversion from the Top – A Jesuit in the Forbidden City: Matteo Ricci 1552-1610
Das Buch ist eine vollständige, zuweilen recht wissenschaftliche und sehr detaillierte Biographie , dessen Kapitel hauptsächlich nach Wirkungsorten und in den letzten zwei Kapiteln nach sein Hauptwerken angeordnet sind. Der Autor ist Chinese-American, der daher auch chinesische Quellen berücksichtigten kann. Das Buch wird vom Kapitel Beijing an ausserordentlich lebendig, und brilliant, geradezu einzigarig wenn es Riccis Argumentation beschreibt....
The Jesuits – Ricci, Schall, Verbiest and the ancient observatory in Beijing China.
The ancient observatory in Beijing China, once part of the city walls, is mounted on the battlements of a ten-meter watchtower close to the “Second Ring Road”. As one of the oldest and famous observatories in the world, it covers an area of 10,000 square meters. Actually Beijing’s first (innermost) ring road, the 2nd Ring...
The observatory at Maragha
In 1971 and 1972 I traveled parts of the Silk Road on my way from Europe to Syria and later to Afghanistan. The road stretched for thousands kilometers leading caravans across scorching deserts, picturesque oases, and mountain passes but obviously travelling through the USSR was not possible at this time. Many of cities and entire...
Christentum und Wissenschaft entlang der Seidenstrasse. Christentum in Asien.
Die verlorene Einheit – Verstossung des Nestorianismus Der Nestorianismus der Antiochenischen Schule nahm die gegensätzliche Position zum Monophysitismus Alexandriens (Ägypten) ein. Die Antiocher gingen den “Zweinaturenweg”, die Alexandriner dagegen lehrten, dass die menschliche und die Logosnatur immer eins seien. Letztlich war das der Unterschied zwischen Stoa (Dyophysiten) und Platonikern (Monophysititen). Durch bewusst verfälschende Darstellung des...
Sylvain Gouguenheim: Der Historiker zum Abschießen
Wenn ein anerkannter Historiker sich erdreistet, eine der herrschenden Lehre entgegengesetzte Meinung zu vertreten und sich somit in Opposition zu arrivierten Geschichtsdekonstruktivisten stellt, dann muss man um seinen akademischen Ruf besorgt sein. Das haben auch deutsche Wissenschaftler auf ähnlichen Gebieten erfahren, wie Karl-Heinz Ohlig, Christoph Luxenberg, Gerd oder Gerd Rudiger Puin. Sylvain Gouguenheim, Professor für...
Protected: Die dunklen Anfänge
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Docetism and Ebionism compared with the Qur’an
Survival of the fittest. Religions fight – survive or die. There were formal and near formal heresies ( heresy = a theological doctrine or system rejected as false by ecclesiastical authority ) such as: Docetism, Ebionitism, Nestorians, Apollinarian, Monophysitism ( several heresies ) and Gnosticism just to name few. Christian Gnostics believed that someone else...
Philip Jenkins "The Next Christendom" – in the long run . . . Christ wins out
Philip Jenkins has a joint appointment at Penn State University and at Baylor University and is also the author of “The Lost History of Christianity”, another excellent book. A respected professor of history and religious studies who has been known for “going against the flow,” Jenkins argues that the rapid growth of Christianity around the...