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Published 27 October 2001 - Last Changes 4 February 2010

PREFACE

   As religious heads keep up the inter-religious dialogue or the common prayer for the public [e.g. the Prayer Meetings in Assisi, where Pope John Paul II and leaders of other religions said their prayers for justice and peace] and scholars discuss at international scientific meetings interreligious issues, we may assume that this is done also as an inivation for everybody to join both the discussion and the common prayer. Perhaps some day experts in WWW matters will establish a body of members of different religions and world views and promote CS or something else of that kind. They will then among other things agree on a common symbol and on the use of the proceeds from its selling (for the poor).

   Why should we not do here and now what - according to God's revelation - shall be our common eternal occupation? Of what use are those pictures of heavenly life, if they do not mould our life on earth? In heaven there will certainly be no partitions for Jews, Christians, Moslems, Buddhist, Hindus, and Atheists. For since according to the natural knowledge of God only one Origin/God can exist (who 'deserves' this name), 'your' God and 'mine' God is one and the same. Why the one God allows it that in die different (monotheist) religions different ideas of God 'developed'? HE does certainly not intend that those who adore HIM fight each other. On the contrary, they are to enrich each other. Have you not been put into an Islamic society, I into a Christian family, and some of my school friends reared by atheist parents? Has not the belief in this Origin/God of ours been, as it were, put into our cradles?

   Can we only dream of the future family of peoples, when every country is like a park where 'governmental gardeners' are nursing various trees, bushes and flowers - especially those that are rare? Neither monoculture (to get the utmost profit) nor jungle (the strongest getting to the top) corresponds to the dignity of human beings. Thus, either w e   lay out this park or it will remain a dream. But the history of humankind clearly proves that we are unable to pull ourselves out of the mire by our own tuft. Take into consideration the current financial and economical crisis and the global warming, the teaching about the 'original sin' in the Christian creed, Buddha's teaching about the 'greed for life'. There is needed a real change in our mentality so that these parks come true. Needed are more and more people who are aware of their common origin and aim, and who are ready to turn over a new leaf and to live for others. How are we to tackle this? The answer is, by getting united in our prayers and actions for justice and peace. For there is a (personal?) force that can and will tackle it together with us.

       Prayer is understood here in a comprehensive way as the 'yearning of the human heart' - comparable to the 'wordless jubilation' (Saint Augustine). It therefore needs not to be positively directed to (the one) God. There are unbelievers or atheists, too, who are longing for justice and peace and whose hearts go out to the poor, and perhaps it will just be they who will hear in the Last Judgment, 'You have my Father's blessing ...'
       To join CS you needn't become an expert in breathing technics or in the Incessant Jesus Prayer. You will nevertheless profit by praying to the rhythm of your breath. Because you are practising something done through centuries by Buddhist and Christian monks, who are striving in this way for illumination and peace (Hesychia).

     


Public

Contrary to a secret conspiracy the CS-button/badge makes public

  • either your actual taking part in CS,
  • your inner attitude (longing for justice, siding with the poor),
  • and your active commitment to the poor (living or working for them, sharing your possessions with them).

This sign or symbol has been taken from the mandala before which Brother Klaus prayed in his hermitage. Its core is the place for the symbol of any religion or world view - not only for Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, Moslems, people of good will. It serves as a 'sign of unity' for people who differ by colour, race, religion, language, culture ...

Con-Spiration-badge

Would it not be great, if such a companionship came into existence, and if people around the world recognized each other at first sight? The CS-badge will answer to the longing of the human heart for togetherness, and help to find someone with whom one can freely talk about one's attempts and achievements, difficulties and successes, questions and insights

Why t h i s badge?

 


Con-Spiracy

How can you 'con-spire'? In the way of the Jesus Prayer, i.e. by calling upon God's name. Sit down, lay your hands into each other, relax, become aware of your breathing, take some deep 'drags' - inhaling the 'most precious breath of life' - and exhale in the same slow and attentive way. You can respire in this way also while you are walking, resting on your bed, etc.
Connect then with your breathing the name or the words of the formula chosen by you. There is no sound of words to be heard, because you are praying mentally. Hence the name 'Prayer of the Heart'.

 

Possible Prayer for Jews, Christians, Moslems * 

By breathing in say the cursive, by breathing out the underlined words.


My Lord and my God,
set me free from myself and let me give myself to You.

My Lord and my God
take from me everything that keeps me from You.

My Lord and my God
give to me everything that leads me to You.


You can imagine thereby that you are looking into the face of Christ, the eternal judge, i.e. any face of a hungry, thirsty, homeless, sick, imprisoned, dead human being. The Judge will not ask first, 'Did you help your (Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist ... fellow believers!) Keep praying so as long as you have decided before. The circumstances of your life will tell you how much time you should give CS - whether five, ten, twenty, or more minutes will be enough per day.

 * The Prayer of Brother Klaus can help us to gain the spirit of unselfishness and detachment, if we say these words in a sincere and trustful way. Of course, we are afraid to ask God, Take away everything... and Give everything... But Jesus says, If you who are bad give good things to your children when they ask you, how much more your Father in heaven. He will give you his Holy Spirit. If we trust in his promise, we will experience its truth. When we have given away everything, and everything that stood between us (i.e. divided our heart), between us and God, and between us and our neighbour has been taken away from us, we shall be the most blessed human beings - here on earth already. Why then should we wait until death w i l l  take away everything from us?!

 


For-with-of the Poor

   CS is prayer f o r  the 'poor' rich, so that they open their hearts and hands more and more for the poor. There is a special urgency to pray for the antisocial rich.
   CS is prayer w i t h  the poor, since love itself will urge us to share their life, respectively their living conditions. There have been rich people who have chosen this path in the past, some of them are well known. They left their castles and served the poor with their own hands. Saint Elizabeth said to her Hungarian maid servants while they were nursing the sick, "How glad we are that we can wash and feed Christ."
   CS is prayer o f  the 'rich' poor. But this is rather the aim than the reality of our life. There it is not any longer about social poverty but at stake is our inner attitude of detachment, our ability to surrender ourselves to God, to love wholeheartedly him, our neighbour and ourselves. The Beatitudes name it: Those who are poor before God. Let us hold alive in our hearts the longing for this Blessed Poverty, and let us pray that the Wonder of the Beatitudes (Mt 5,1-12a) will convert us.

  The greatest part of humankind is living in poverty, which is caused for the most part by the rich and mighty who defend their stolen possessions even by force of arms. This injustice must not be tolerated. According to the holy scriptures of the Old and New Testament especially the poor are loved by God. God sides with them against the rich, the mighty, the violent. If I want to be at God's side, my heart has to go out to the poor, orphans, strangers ...
   As its name suggests, CON-Spiration for/with/of the poor aims at poverty. Poverty does not mean material need but to get rid of my attachment to possessions and to become free of greed.    Nobody wants to choose poverty in itself.

In the Christian creed the revelation of the mystery of God's love is crystallized in the dogma of his Trinity. His being 'three in one' is founded in the Father's totally giving himself away to his Son. The Son, too, gives himself up to the Father. The personified love of both is named Holy Spirit.
   Since the Son of God has chosen the path of poverty (manger and cross), and - as the risen Lord - totally identifies himself with his humble brothers, I will ask him to move my heart this way: To identify more and more with the poor, and so become eventually united with God, who out of love to me became poor so that I become rich.
Hence poverty means to follow the example of Christ, means discipleship. For example to take up the Lord's advice, and to bind oneself by the vow of poverty to the poor Christ, as it happens in religious orders where nuns and monks, apart from their personal belongings, have no private possessions (cars, houses, bank accounts ...) - forming in this way a community of goods or, if you like, a commune. The founders of religions and those who have tried to restore the foundations of their religion had a special liking for poverty.
   The modern way of life is to a large extent shaped by the American way of life that needs urgently and persistently a counterposition because it is a great temptation. Big business and globalization prophets want to lure people into this mentality: To become consumers, competitors, and careerists.
There is happiness and bliss in people who are really poor, poor in spirit and mind. God's blessing rests on them (Cf. Mt 5,3). They have the ability to live in union and peace with themselves and with others - as is shown by their lives. To strive after that kind of poverty, pays off.
   The natural trend of our life points to this aim. In the hour of our death we will leave everything behind. To be prepared for it means to give up a lot of things and persons that have troubled my heart.
   By meditating on poverty you will certainly find enough reasons to side with it or, as Saint Francis said, to gain poverty as your bride.

 


YOUR CONTRIBUTION

IF YOU are convinced that Common Prayer will support and inspire the worldwide engagement for justice and peace, and so better the living conditions of the poor, and

 

If you want to write for CS a short information about your religion or world-outlook: Write only about the following:

  1. Name the ultimate and decisive aim of your religion.
  2. By which way or means can this aim be achieved?
  3. Give two suitable prayer formulas of your religion.
  4. Name the symbol of your religion (crescent, cross, lotus, star of David etc.)

Or design a Con-Spiracy-Website about the background of your religion and put it into the web!

 


Short Version

  

Imagine the Lord God in Paradise, breathing Life into Adam.
Alternately, you may imagine the Risen Lord greeting the Apostles,
"Peace be with you", breathing on them the Holy Spirit,
and granting them the ability to forgive sins.


Say in the way of the Incessant Jesus Prayer

by breathing in

Peace

and by breathing out

be with you

 

or

Scha - lom

Sa - lâm
As-salâmu - 'alaykum

Om - mane padme hum

 

As atheist you will leave out the words 'My Lord and my God', but the words 'take' and 'give' can be said in view of your circumstances - health/illness, gain/loss, joy/sadness ... And while you are saying mentally, 'Oh, that everything would be taken from me that keeps me from you', you can put a human being before your inner eye: Husband or wife, friend or neighbour - somebody in need of your help.

[Back to 'formula']
See also:
[Praying With the Name "Jesus Christ"]  [Praying with one's first or Christian name]

 

 

The moving gold illustrates - in case the "animated" gif-file is working on your page - the breathing in and out. You have to choose (prayer) words and breath rhythm proper for you.

[Back to 'Special Lamp']

 

Helpful Texts 2005  2006  2007  2008 - 2009 - 2010 - 
Index of Names - Index of Topics

Stefan Silber - Theology of Liberation in the Dialogue between Religions
Hans Kessler - Trialogue between Jews, Christians, and Muslims
Victor Conzemius - Johannes Paul II - Global Player of Justice
Arnold Angenendt - Violent Monotheism - Human Polytheism?
Ludwig Ebersberger - Structure and Dynamic of the Cosmos
Konrad Hilpert - The Acknowledgment of Religious Freedom
Christoph Albrecht SJ - No Alliance with Structural Violence!
Alfred Metzger - Where Does the Hatred Come From?
Ernst Förster - Three Sharing Or Dividing One God
Joachim Valentin - Final Fight - Hell - Paradise
Eberhard von Gemmingen SJ - Radio Vatican
Thomas Gertler - How do I look at the world?
Franz Kamphaus - Culture of Non-Violence
Peter Hünseler - Dialogue at a snail's pace
Joachim Valentin - Rationality in Islam?
Iwan Sokolowsky - Islam And Peace

 

2006
Peter Heine - No Raprochment in View - Differences between Shiites & Sunnis
Chr. W. Troll - 'To believe each other capable of questioning oneself critically'
Ursula Schneider - Peace Initiatives and Peace Potentials in Israel/Palestine
Gerd Stricker - Still no Thaw (Orthodox and Catholic Christians in Russia)
Karl-Heinz Pohl - Spiritual Traditions For Which Today's Chinese Stand
Andreas Renz, Hansjörg Schmid, Jutta Sperber - In the Name of God
George Evers - Conflict Intensification Instead of Communication?
Anton Rauscher - John Paul II and the World-wide Social Question
Michael Amaladoss - Serving the Interreligious Dialogue in India
Christian W. Troll - Progressive Thinking in Contemporary Islam
Georg Evers - Religious Coexistence Endangered in Indonesia
Katharina Hofer - Does a Militant Christianity Develop in Africa?
Christian M. Rutishauser - From Religion Pluralism to Dialogue
Anton Rauscher - The Christian Roots of Human Dignity
Thomas Gertler - Spiritual Exercises and World Mission
Magnus Striet - Benedikt XVI, Modern Times, and Faith
Anna Strobel - Unique Legal Status - Muslims in Austria
Marianne Heimbach-Steins - Human Rights for Women
Andreas Heuser - God, Nation and Education (Ghana)
Johannes Müller - Protection for Religious Symbols?
Gerd Neuhaus - Christian And Pluralistic At Once?
Gisbert Greshake - Each Child Understands That
Heinz Werner Wessler - India's Unity in Diversity
Michael Sievernich - Multi-Culturalism at the End
Clauß Peter Sajak - Dictatorship of Relativism?
Hans Joachim Höhn - Renaissance of Religion
Sabine Demel - From Culture- to Faith Mission
Annette Meuthrath - Asian Women's Theology
Johannes Röser - Religion as Maker of Moral?
Heiner Bielefeldt - Threatened Human Right
Theodor Hanf - Time-tested Co-operation
Johannes Röser - How Universal is God?
Daniel Bogner - A Clear Improvement
Anton Rauscher - The Scarf Conflict
Hans Maier - Church in Democracy
Stefan Silber - Complex and Alive
Magnus Striet - Liberty and Faith
Peter Heine - Not Only Alms
Stefan Ort - Good Religion
Ulrich Ruh - Fears

 

2007
Christoph Albrecht SJ - Comment on the Reprimand of the Liberation Theologian Jon Sobrino SJ
Helge Stadelmann - What Evangelicals Like to Contribute to the Overall Church Dialogue
Johannes Müller SJ / Johannes Wallacher - Forty Years Populorum Progressio
Marco Moerschbacher - When Black Priests Bring Themselves to Notice
Alexander Foitzik / Werner Schönig - "An Ethical, not a Political Problem"
Tahsin Görgün - Humans as Creatures And Deputies of the Creator
Stephan Leimgruber - New Perspectives of Interreligious Learning
Raif Georges Khoury - Christians in Lebanon and the Arab Culture
Johannes Röser - To Dare More Democracy - within the Church
Christoph Krauß & Gerhard Kruip - Caught up in Self-blockades
Hamideh Mohagheghi - Only Obedient Wife and Good Mother?
Alexander Foitzik / Josef Sayer - "Not Separate from the Poor"
Luis Gutheinz - A View into the Workshop of Chinese Theology
Johannes Müller SJ - Climatic Change and World-wide Poverty
Hans Maier - 'There Is Missing a Common European Feeling'
Christian Ruch - Buddhism in the German-speaking Countries
Christian W. Troll - Muhammad - Prophet also for Christians?
Dieter Senghaas - How to Reorient the Intercultural Dialogue
Petra Kolonko - Peking Olympiad in 2008 and Human Rights
Rita Süssmuth - Change of Perspective with Consequences
Pierre de Charentenay SJ - Is there any future for Europe?
Reinhold Esterbauer - Christian reason as soul of Europe?
Andreas Heuser - To a Large Extent Unknown Neighbours
Michael Reder - Reform of World Trade and of the WTO
Armin Laschet - More pragmatically than a few years ago
Michael Schrom - Controlled Democracy and Wild Faith
Alois Koch - Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1592-1666)
Albert Keller SJ - Intellectual Discussion or Tolerance?
Andreas Fincke - A Chimera of Freedom of Religion
Dieter Senghaas - Is There Any Future For Peace?
Christian Frevel - Socialists and left-wing Christians
Jürgen Springer - 'We all always pray for the Pope'
Ali Dere - How Much Islam Does Pluralism Stand?
Walter Cardinal Kasper - Changes of Ecumenism
Martin Maier - Fifth General Assembly of CELAM
Georg Evers - Politically and Religiously Strained
Wolfgang Schonecke - No Simple Programmes
Erich Zenger - The Jesus Book of Benedict XVI
Magnus Striet - Does a God who is silent exist?
Magnus Striet - Not For All But For Many Only?
Christoph Böttigheimer - Truth and Tolerance
Hans-Joachim Höhn - "We are the original!?"
Michael Sievernich - Fauxpas in Aparecida?Benedict XVI and the Indians of America
Walter Cardinal Kasper - Faith and Reason
Peter Heine - A Distinctive Self-confidence
Daniel Bogner - Interpreters or Lobbyists?
Gerhard Kruip - Another world is possible
Harding Meyer - Standstill or new Kairos?
Harry Harum Behr - An Ordinary Subject?
Ernst Ulz - Our Message Are The People
Volker Gerhardt - The Rationality of Faith
Margit Eckholt - Creative on New Ways
Alexander Foitzik - Option for the Poor
Gerd Stricker - An Absurd Programme
Karl H. Neufeld - Second Africa Synod
Martin Leiner - Faith in Christ and Myth
Veit Strassner - The Nerves Lie Bare
Jürgen Springer - The Chinese Letter
Georg Evers - Calm after the Storm?
Ulrich Ruh - Continuity and Flexibility
Hans Zirker - Why I am not a Muslim
Annette Schavan - Europe's Wealth
Bernhard Grom SJ - Christian Zen?
Ernst Ulz - A Powerful Revolution
Jürgen Springer - Frayed Puzzle
Georg Evers - 'River and cross'
George Evers - Hopeful Signal
Karl Osner - Meeting the Poor
Ulrich Ruh - Is God Coming?
Klaus Müller - New Atheism?
Martin Maier - Inculturation

 

2008
Michael Wolffsohn - What unites us, what separates "the Abrahamic religions"- from the Jewish perspective?
Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde - Human Dignity and the Right to Life at the Beginning and End of Life
Pietro Parolin - The Importance of Freedom of Religion from the Catholic Church's Perspective
Marianne Heimbach-Steins - Man and Woman have the same Dignity and are Equal
Michael Krischer - Paraguay: Bishop Lugo becomes the new President of the State
Nasr Hamid Abu Zaid - 'Historical Contexts should get Greater Consideration'
Johannes Röser - Is it (not) allowed to a Christian to be progress-optimistic?
Christoph Gellner - To be a Christian in the midst of World Religions
Godehard Brüntrup SJ - Atheism Delusion instead of God Delusion
Christian W. Troll SJ - Common Prayer of Christians and Muslims?
Hans Czarkowski - What will become of the "Continental Mission"?
Theo Paul - "Blessed is He Who Considers the Poor!" (Ps 41,2)
Ursula Schneider - Elias Chacour - Israeli, Palestinian, Christian
Wolfgang Schonecke - Former Carrier of Hope in the Chaos
Markus Knapp - Faith and Knowledge with Jürgen Habermas
Reinhard Hempelman - Evangelicalism and Fundamentalism
Stephan U. Neumann - Liberated Church - Liberated Culture
Johannes Müller SJ - Climate Change as Ethical Challenge
Johannes Röser - Workshop of a New World Civilization?
Hans Waldenfels - Theologians under Roman Suspicion
Hanspeter Heinz - In that Way the Church Must not Pray!
Muna Tatari - Man and Woman in the Mirror of the Koran
Franz Weber - Soul Catching, Competition or Dialogue?
Saskia Wendel - Resolution on Extremists for Believers
Joachim Schroedel - Radical Change at a Difficult Time
Matthias Belafi - Specifications on Religious Freedom?
Andreas Heuser - Spiritual Struggle for Public Space
Diananga Cingoma - The Conflict in Eastern Congo
Ludger Honnefelder - Phenomenon "New Atheism"
Thomas Steinforth - Orientation for Today's Caritas
Wolfgang Schonecke - No Change in the System
Volker Wörl - The Financial Crisis and Its Victims
Bernard Bleyer - The Poor as Christ's Sacrament
Johannes Röser - The Curse is Upon You Rich!?
Jürgen Springer - Religious Peace by Abraham?
Christian W. Troll - New Beginning with Dialogue
Christian Frevel - No Change of Course in Cuba
Johannes Röser - How Dangerous is Religion?
Hansjörg Schmid - Bridge to the Islamic World
Klaus Stüwe - Politics and Religion in the USA
Walter Lesch - Wage Justice - a Pious Wish?
Stefan Waanders - Globalization and Religion
Hermann Schalück - Poor Mark for Dialogue?
Jacques Naoum - On the Trails of Maro
Muhammad Shama - Honour to Man in Islam
Christian Kummer SJ - A New Kulturkampf?
Harald Baer - Case of Conflict: Scientology
Oliver Müller - Full Tanks and Empty Plates
Christian Rutishauser - Zen and Christianity
Peter Heine - Cultural Struggle for Clothing
Michael Bongardt - Are Muslims Idolaters?
Klaus Barwig - Refugees in the Cul-de-sac
Simone Lindorfer - Liberation Psychology
Christian W. Troll - Irenic Interpretations?
Jürgen Springer - Homeless in Chaldaea
Jan-Heiner Tück - Rebellion against God
Andreas R. Batlogg SJ - Positive Laïcité
Ömer Özsoy - Man's Adventure on Earth
Markus Luber - End of Secularization?
Hansjörg Schmid - Concrete Dialogue
Martin Maier SJ - World Refugee Day
Bernhard Bleyer - Option for the Poor
Felix Körner SJ - Dialogue Disputed
Hans Maier - Violence in Christianity
Georg Evers - Difficult Coexistence
Georg Evers - Wave of Violence
Thomas Schärtl - New Atheism
Wilfried Dettling - Ali's Friends
Hans Maier - God-ordered?
Michael Kuhnert - In a Fix

 

2009
January Christian Frevel - Latin America on Opposition Course
Frank Kürschner-Pelkmann - Water - Earth - Theolog
Michael Schrom - Where does Orthodoxy Move?
Martin Maier SJ - Civilization of Shared Frugality
Bernhard Grom SJ - Deistically Believe in God?
Lieven Boeve - "Supporting Research"

Since 2009 the journals 'Herder-Korrespondenz' and 'Stimmen der Zeit' publish their articles in the Web.
That' why in future I can put less German texts into the Web.

Christian Ruch - Stroking the Rock?
Thorsten Hinz - In the Identity Trap
March Christian Kummer SJ: Darwin's Theory - not only for Atheists
Saskia Wendel - "As Male and Female He Created Them"
Hans Kessler: God - Why We do (not) Need Him
Johannes Röser - Feministically Islamic
Georg Evers - Enormous Challenges
April Alexander Foitzik - Religious Freedom: Symposium of Justitia et Pax
Marfa Heimbach - On the Way into the German Society
Michael N. Ebertz - What is a Catholic Fundamentalist?
Thomas Schärtl - The Rationality of Religious Beliefs
Josef Schmidt SJ - Evolution and Faith in Creation
May Eberhard von Gemmingen - Where does Pope Benedict direct the Church?
Andreas R. Batlogg SJ - Benedict XVI in the Footsteps of Jesus
Margareta Mommsen - Russia's Managed Democracy
Johannes Röser - At the Age of Eight Already Wife?
Klaus Müller - Reason, Modern Age and the Pope
Jürgen Springer - Which Messiah Does Save Us?
Udo Schmälzle - Christ is Present in the Poor
Stefan Orth - I and I
June Matthias Müller - Interreligious Encounter as Spiritual Exercises
Albert Keller SJ - A New Chapter in Contemporary History?
Hans Waldenfels SJ - The Church in the Face of Islam
Wolfgang Schonecke - A Form of Colonization?
Christian W. Troll SJ - ABU ZAID, Nasr Hami
Benoît Vermander SJ - China and Taiwan
July Johannes Röser - Reform between Alpha and Omega: Questions for a Council on Faith
Michael Schrom - The Servant of Allah and the Responsibility of Muslims
Johannes Röser - The Mother of All Things
Michael Sievernich - "God's Pilot Project"
Magnus Striet - Unfinished Mourning
August Karl-Heinz Menke - Jesus Christ, Son of God and True Man. Theological Impulses
Christoph Böttigheimer - Europe as an Ecumenical Challenge?
Cardinal Walter Kasper - Faith Asking About Its Understanding
Johannes Röser - What Does Determine the Human Rights?
Hans Waldenfels - How is Faith Today Inculturated?
Jürgen Henkel - Between Church and Consumerism
Peter Heine - The Revolution does not Take Place
September Johannes Röser - Eastern Christianity - Western Christianity
Wolfgang Schonecke - Lack of Leadership Responsibility
Cardinal Karl Lehmann - Criteria of Interreligious Dialogue
Christian Beck - The Social Encyclical Caritas in Veritate
Martin Maier SJ - The Relevance of Liberation Theology
Sabine Demel - Where Does the ZdK's Path Lead?
Andreas Lienkamp - Committed to Resistance
Ralph Rotte - Beyond the Everyday Business
Markus Bauer - Difficult Mission Country
Otto Betz - Mysticism as Bridge Builder
Johannes Röser - Euro-Sharia?
Oktober Patrick Becker & Ursula Diewald - Relativism, Postmodernism and Truth-Claim
Rudolf Prokschi & Ulrich Ruh - 'Willingness to Listen Is Needed'
Klaus Vellguth - Poverty and Religious Conflict in Nigeria
János Wildmann - Pretty Mediocre Outcome
Joachim Valentin - Giggling God-King
November Matthias Hofmann - Afghanistan - Awakening in the Hindu Kush?
Stephan U. Neumann - Continent of Opportunities
Ömer Özsoy - Between Defense and Conformity
Norbert Kößmeier - Life on the Powder Keg
Klaus von Stosch - Inspiring Thinking
Georg Evers - After the Civil War
December Christian M. Rutishauser SJ - 2009 - An Eventful Year of Jewish-Christian Dialogue
Heinz Werner Wessler - Mahatma Gandhi in the Age of Fight Against Terrorism
Johannes Müller SJ - Setting the Course of Climate Policy
Thomas Bremer - How Religious are the Russians?
Jan-Heiner Tück - Working on the Concept of God
Wolfgang Schonecke - Get up, Africa
Jürgen Springer - Farewell to Efendi

 

2010
January Christian W. Troll - A remarkable new beginning in the study of the Prophet Muhammad
Matthias Hofmann - Iran: The Democracy Movement and the Role of Education
Johannes Oeldemann - On the Way to a New Orthodox-Catholic Ecumenism
Heinz Gstrein - Bloody New Year: Christians under Islamic Violence
Tobias Specker - Has Islam a Place in Europe?
Jürgen Springer - Thaw on the Bosporus?
Georg Stoll - A little Help is not Enough
Ulrike Goeken-Haidl - Split Memory
February Alexander Foitzik - Human Rights: The Church's Advocacy for Social Standards
Werner Hörtner - Drug Power and Power Drug
Michael Fuss - In the Hall of Mirrors of Truth
Georg Evers - Already a Great Power?
Climate Change - Book Reviews
March Felix Körner SJ - Ecclesiastical Magisterium, Catholic Theology, Todays' Islam
Manfred Eder - "The Church Has Accepted My Work"
Martin Maier SJ - Blessed rather than Beatified

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