The new Bonhoeffer movie isn’t just bad. It’s dangerous.
Nov 21, 2024 · Bonhoeffer the movie, on the other hand, presents him as just this kind of moral agent who clearly recognizes good and evil, with the only real question being whether he has the stomach to do what he knows is right. By reducing moral deliberation to a question of will, the movie not only badly misreads Bonhoeffer. It also traffics in the dangerous idea of the Bonhoeffer moment, inviting its ...
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Thoughtful, Independent, Progressive. Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.
Who is Jesus for Muslims? | The Christian Century
Jun 7, 2017 · Zeki Saritoprak’s book Islam’s Jesus examines the role of Jesus in the Qur’an and in Islamic theology.He has written about many Islamic theologians, mystics, and scholars, including the 13th-century poet and Sufi mystic Rumi and the early 20th-century Turkish Muslim scholar Bediüzzaman Said Nursî.
Does the promise still hold? Israel and the land: An essay and ...
How are Christians to understand this promise in the 21st century? We asked Gary Anderson to write an essay, and Walter Brueggeman, Marlin Jeschke and Donald E. Wagner to respond.Walter Brueggemann's responseMarlin Jeschke's responseDonald E....
An even better Bible - The Christian Century
Last spring, the National Council of Churches commissioned the Society of Biblical Literature to lead a review and update of the New Revised Standard Version translation of the Bible. The new NRSV Updated Edition contains tens of thousands of changes, many of them substantive. The project was led by ...
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Nov 1, 2024 · Thoughtful, Independent, Progressive. Since 1900, the Christian Century has published reporting, commentary, poetry, and essays on the role of faith in a pluralistic society.
Can a Jew be a Christian? The challenge of Messianic Judaism: The ...
May 3, 2005 · Can you be a practicing Jew and also believe that Jesus is the messiah? The customary answer is no. Though Christianity began as a Jewish sect, it quickly became an all-gentile affair. Indeed, Christians came to understand themselves as people who...
There’s no such thing as a Bonhoeffer moment
Nov 20, 2024 · Holocaust scholars in particular have always viewed Bonhoeffer more critically. Observing that popular portrayals of Bonhoeffer as a rescuer of Jews rely more upon assumption than evidence, historian Kenneth Barnes wrote this in 1999: “In the shadow of the Holocaust, Bonhoeffer’s words and actions appear small, tentative, restrained, and ambivalent. . . .
Lectionary essay for November 17 Ordinary 33B Mark 13 1 8 | The ...
Nov 11, 2024 · This essay is on a biblical text assigned for November 17, and I’m mindful that you may be reading it sometime after the November 5 election in the United States—though I can’t say for certain that the matter will be completely settled by then.
Hospitality at the stable (Luke 2:1-14) | The Christian Century
Dec 22, 2024 · To receive these posts by email each Monday, sign up. For more commentary on this week's readings, see the Reflections on the Lectionary page. For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. I often wonder about the innkeeper, that most maligned character of the Christmas story.