Posted in Cross and Crescent, Ethics, Islam, tagged Christianty, interfaith, Islam, Judaism, politics on July 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
City of God? Christianity, Judaism and Islam in the Public Square, a Veritas Forum at Oxford with presentations from
Rabbi Dr. Naftali Brawer (Judaism),
Dr. Tariq Ramadan (Islam), and
Rt Rev Michael Nazir-Ali (Christianity)
is interesting, informative, and worth a watch or listen. Even the fact that such dialogues are happening today speaks to the [...]
Posted in A Common Word, Cross and Crescent, Duplex Regnum, Ethics, Natural Law, Pilgrim Praxis, tagged Christianity, Fitna, Islam, Islamization, politics, religion on March 31, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Having introduced Geert Wilder’s Fitna film and surveyed its political repercussions over the past few days, in part 3 I will examine how the Christian world is officially responding to Fitna. First up, the Roman Catholic response; then, we’ll look at the Protestant response.
Roman Catholic Response
Silence So Far on Fitna
So far I have not found [...]
Posted in A Common Word, Cross and Crescent, Ethics, Pilgrim Praxis, tagged Christianity, Fitna, Islam, Islamization, politics, religion on March 31, 2008 | 2 Comments »
In part 1 I simply set the context for discussing Geert Wilders’ Fitna film by briefly explaining its origins and purpose. Now in part 2 I will briefly survey Fitna’s international political fallout in order to set up a comparison between political and religious responses to Fitna in part 3.
Ambivalent International Political Reaction to Fitna
Media [...]
Posted in A Common Word, Cross and Crescent, Ethics, Pilgrim Praxis, tagged Christianity, Fitna, Islam, Islamization, politics, religion on March 29, 2008 | 3 Comments »
What Is Fitna?
Fitna, the Arabic word loosely translated “division,” “strife,” or “dissension” (with a religious connotation) is the title of Dutch politician Geert Wilder’s extremely controversial film which antagonizes against European islamization, especially in the Netherlands. See the International Herald Tribune’s Dutch lawmaker releases anti-Quran film for a brief news-media report about the film and [...]
Posted in Augustine, Book Reviews, Daryl Hart, Doctrina divina, Duplex Regnum, Ecclesiology, Eschatology, Ethics, John, John 18, Pilgrim Praxis, Scriptura sacra, Sola Scriptura, Soteriology, tagged Christianity, politics, Reformed, religion on February 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Overview: Hole in the Wall
Daryl Hart delights in thought-provoking ironies. Recovering Mother Kirk had us Christians looking into the apparent paradox of “high church Calvinism” as a liturgical way of life. A Secular Faith now invites us to become “Christian secularists” (p. 15) when it comes to politics. Both books hold in common a robust, [...]
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