(Thanks to sometime commenter L for this story.)
Wow, has Germany come full circle? Here’s a story about the German Education Minister encouraging German Christians to keep on engaging actively with society and politics. “Without Christians, Germany wouldn’t be what it is.” And lest any of you think that’s a slam, she seems to mean post-Nazi Germany, which is a pretty impressive place (despite all my moaning). (Besides, as a lecture in Jesus in the Gospels revealed further to me today, the Nazis were far outside the mainstream of Christianity – they were basically a cult, in so far as they were “Christian” at all, that argued that Jesus was not Jewish and called for drastic reevaluation of the Old and New Testaments along racial lines.)
October 29, 2009 at 2:56 pm
Interesting and cool. Yes, strange world we live in (“full circle”).
Speaking of Germans & Christianity, here is a German biblical scholar I am now interested in: http://www.gerdluedemann.de/
October 30, 2009 at 11:44 am
His recent articles list looks pretty interesting.
Glad to hear you’re interested in him. How did you find out about him? My vague, uneducated idea of German theologians is that they would be super intellectual but boring, dry, ossified, afraid of throwing down any kind of gauntlet due to the numbing shame over the Nazi years.