Jacques Ellul

Jacques Ellul, 6 januari 1912 - 19 maj 1994

19 May 2014 Bengt Rasmusson *svenska, Jacques Ellul 0 comments
Jacques Ellul

"Det största problemet för en kristen idag är inte att veta hur han ska handla. ... Det som betyder något är att leva, inte handla."

Ten theses in the praise of inutility

24 Feb 2011 Bengt Rasmusson *English, Jacques Ellul, inutility 0 comments

The most profound and unsettling piece ever written about inutility from a Christian perspective comes from the pen of Jacques Ellul in the middle of the sixties: “Meditation on Inutility” in The Politics of God and the Politics of Man (1972, French original 1966).

Jacques Ellul on prayer

19 May 2009 Bengt Rasmusson *English, Jacques Ellul, bön, citat, prayer, quotes 0 comments
Jacques Ellul

Prayer holds together the shattered fragments of the creation. It makes history possible.

Logga: Inmedit

Some friends sharing thoughts and reflections concerning Christian theology, and therefore also about such things as history, society, and culture.

Highlights

Det finns ingen väg till fred på säkerhetens väg

21 Sep 2023 Bengt Rasmusson *svenska, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, fredsarbete 0 comments
Fanö 2023

"Fred måste vågas, den är en stor risk och kan aldrig säkras. Fred är motsatsen till säkerhet."

Church as a Politics of Friendship

2 Mar 2015 Bengt Rasmusson *svenska, church, friendship, virtue 0 comments
The Trinity, Andrei Rublev

This thesis studies how two contemporary theologians – the German reformed systematic theologian Jürgen Moltmann and the American catholic moral theologian Paul Wadell – relate and contribute to the broad Christian tradition of friendship when it comes to friendship theology in general and friendship and church in particular.

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Ett fulltonigt evangelium

14 Aug 2021 Roland Spjuth *svenska, ekumenik, frikyrka 0 comments
Ett fulltonigt evangelium

Genom att lära sig av varandra erhålles därför en större bredd och en helhetsförståelse av den kristna spiritualiteten.

Radical Orthodoxy on Catholicism, Protestantism and Liberalism/Liberality

13 Feb 2020 Bengt Rasmusson *English, Radical Ortodoxy, liberalism, political theology, politics, quantitative methods 0 comments
The Politics of Virtue

Arne Rasmusson on the use of historical narratives and quantitative methods in political theology, with special reference to Radical Orthodoxy, catholicism, protestantism, and liberalism/liberality.

Jesus Christ, Religious Pluralism and the Oneness of God

13 Mar 2019 Arne Rasmusson *English, kristologi 0 comments
Jesus Christ in stained glass

A strongly Christological Trinitarianism dominated much of twentieth-century theology. In current academic theology, however, there is more talk about God and religion than about Jesus Christ as such.

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Kalle Carlstein

Maria Ledstam

Arne Rasmusson

Bengt Rasmusson

Roland Spjuth

Fredrik Wenell