to encourage theology
I proposes to publish here, ten times a year, a text theological or spiritual, of the minutes of critical readings. I am a Protestant culture, but my question about how Christianity can s'anticiper today. Such, perspective can accom-modern attitude of purely religious or dogmatic .
I draw inspiration from the biblical source unsurpassable and I lean against the tradition
Christian which I am involved. At the same time, I saw voltage incompleteness current
reality and truth ( which is different from doubt), with other religions and cultures
, modernity and postmodernity.
Islam
1) A finding :
The face of Western society is changing, how far will this go on?
He changed under the pressure of the poor of our world. We have largely
created, but they are also victims of their habits and customs they would not give up for anything. The politico-economic world is exacerbating this trend because it is responsible for the bad distribution of wealth. It also changes as a result of resentment, desire for revenge and further opportunities alleged conquest or reconquest.
2) The media hubbub :
We bathe in a nebula information: Germany, Thilo Sarrazin denounces a subversion of his society, a cultural loss of his country, Following the influx of Turks, the votes
cons minarets, for the extradition of foreigners who commit crimes are successfully
in Switzerland to the Netherlands, the party of Gerd Wilders, who likens the Quran Mein Kampf is the hearing and made members ; UK Koranic schools teach in detail the Syariah children, some Muslims make no secret of their desire to see Christians from their homes; alerts for terrorist actions of Al Qaeda are one of the periodic information; of Death fatwas are issued against non-Muslims or Muslims who criticize the Prophet, the Koran, Islam, news agencies echoed the fate of women (including several death sentence) or
condiion Christians in several countries in the Middle East with us, Muslim or Jewish cemeteries are vandalized or desecrated, and the wearing the burqa, the niqab or even the Islamic headscarf in public spaces are a problem here. And this list is not complete.
3) The notice observers:
An American writer (Samuel Huntington), who had talked about a "clash of civilizations" has been rebuffed. If we adopt the theory of the historian Arnold Toynbee said that history through a succession of challenges, we recognize here the challenge that faces our time: two dynamic (modernity and Islam) clash.
Specialists in socio-political phenomena who observe from outside, without taking sides, are tempted to accept the fait accompli. During a broadcast of "C in the air" on 22 September, the combined personalities have found roughly agree on the following idea: We must prepare for a coexistence of cultures without assimilation, with Islam.
Other, more involved, consider two realities:
a) that the democratic game is against democracy. Just as some point in the history of Muslims in Western mass reaches a critical point where it can gain power for its law and faith prevail (or any part or concurrently) in our country on the western lifestyle (alas, often reduced to living well, to live better) would be a minority;
b) that for every Muslim conscious and organized, the implementation of Islam in the West is neither a plot nor a program, but an ideology of Islamization of the world.
Some are aware that our secular West which reduces religion to the private sphere meet people for whom religion has a political dimension. For them, our leaders are wrong when they act as if the separation of theology and politics (the renunciation by religions to political and social control), they-won home, took for granted all their interlocutors and any vis-à-vis.
Western states, on behalf of Human Rights, have opted for companies multicuturalistes, are door-to-fake because Western culture (family, thinking, citizenship) is in a state of crisis and decay while Islam is not primarily a culture, but a faith (for Muslim Faith).
At worst, any criticism is considered racism. Many are forced to repress their comments or appraisal of fear that, while not inherently racist, they know that if they have doubts about the bias muticulturel ruling, they will be reviled.
The fact is that, apart from the Muslim leader Min Hajj, no Muslim protests against Islamic terrorism, as if they themselves were living in fear. This makes us remember
analysis of the historian Jean Delumeau that characterized Christianity in a period in its history in the Middle Ages, "a religion of fear." Is there an Islamic public opinion?
4) Solutions:
is believed to literacy for those who need it, for Europeans as for Muslims: instruction (the spirit and science subjects, but also ancient and modern languages, opening the mind to the humanities), civil education (secular, religious freedom) and civic life. Awareness for joint projects: human rights, Safety of
planet, redistribution of wealth, space exploration, for example.
5) From the Christian side:
The separation of politics and religion is not an achievement of all Christians, Orthodox Greeks, Russians, Irish, Catholic fundamentalists, fundamentalist Protestants. Organizations to meet and exchange have been established and work on both the Catholic and Protestant Europe, but they reach beyond the small circle of elites, both Christian and Muslim? Even as ecumenism Intra-Christian does not come out of his winter.
interfaith relations are on the agenda, the theologies of religion that tend to replace a Christian theology.
There is no advice to offer regarding our personal relationships with Muslims, in each case we have to ask: I overlooked it is an applicant for a dialogue what can he teach me about his faith, what can I tell him mine, *
how can I help or receive assistance, what are the limits imposed, those jem ' imposes on myself ?
* (I see how many members of our congregations are not aware of their faith and their church, how they are poorly prepared to present them simply and accurately, with the shades in our lived-enough relative - diversity)
It would be interesting to know the experiences of each other regarding their contacts with Muslim-art in everyday life. I gladly receive your testimony.
6) sweep our front door:
Before putting labels on others and to be witnesses, we ask what is our situation with modernity. Modernity resonates mostly as freedom.
What we mean by the word "freedom"? Do we tell the difference between independence and freedom? Between freedom and discipline? Between research and the originality of our freedom? Between our freedom and our difficulty to live in society?
A freedom without responsibility and without direct or indirect risk to self and others,
does not exist.
As Protestants, we have neither prohibited nor obligations or beliefs or doctrinal decrees, or spiritual direction, however, we have an inspiration that flows from our listening to the Word of God, exhortations to us are issued by the preaching of the Word, examples from Scripture, history of Christianity, we receive information on witnesses (perhaps the martyrs) present the Christian faith, even if it sometimes critically, we share the spiritual heritage, intellectual, artistic, the Church, its history is ours since its inception, we have an ethics and a thought which we live and héologique help biblical scholars, theologians, historians of Christianity, we have the support and backup of live local, regional, national and world to the spiritual life The activiité Charity and the testimony which we participate actively.
Jacques Gruber
Other texts available via email: Testimony; elections or plebiscites; Where do we stand with the truth? ; Protestants is the souk, Jews and Christians, the divergence
of monotheism (first and second parts) The Don and attention; Holy Spirit who are you, what are you doing? ; Send Church (s) What is believed Jesus entering Jerusalem; Messages for highlights of the year; Am I a creationist? ; Confession of Faith, Evangelism, Forgiveness, The Shipyard, Grace; Easter A vision for the world; Resources; The roadmap of Jesus, Open Letter to my Catholic friends, the Merciful; Led by the Spirit, The Contemporary remote (Benedict XVI and me); For return; The trickery of Calvin, Rome and Canterbury; Woes; Woes (continued) Easter 2010; Remember and learn, Buddha or Jesus, Buddhism, the narrow gate; Berlin Retreats
the same Author: Hear the Word. The testimony within the Holy Spirit , Paris, Editions du Cerf
, 2005,
" You will be my witnesses." For time of confusion and change , Paris, Editions du Cerf,
2009.
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