What is the Place of Christianity?
Why on earth Jesus?
28 Mar 2008 - 20:10 — by IFES EuropeEven today opinions differ wildy about Jesus Christ. He has moved and changed the world like no other man or woman. If you were looking for the single person who had the most influence on the course of
history up until now – Jesus would come off as clear winner.
From the point of the historian he has made the biggest waves of human history. He managed to get milliards of people to count years starting with his birth year.
Beyond the Preamble: Searching for God in a secularising Europe
18 Mar 2008 - 12:55 — by IFES Europe1. The Challenge of Europe
The absence of any reference to God or the Christian faith in the Preamble of the European Constitution and the manifest failure of the European Churches to change the minds of the politicians highlights the extent to which current European policy making takes place in a secular vacuum. The Constitution guarantees the Christian churches a permanent consultative role within the European institutions but even this fails to assure individual believers that European policy makers take sufficiently seriously the motivating ability of the Christian faith. This is strange given the most recent work of Jurgen Habermas, the German neo-Marxist philosopher who suggests, persuasively, that Europe may be seeing a 'return to the religious', and uses the term 'post-secular' to describe this latest phenomena in the career of religion within European history.