Der international engagierte Verteidiger der Religionsfreiheit und Menschenrechte John Warwick Montgomery war Augenzeuge der chinesischen Revolution und der blutigen Niederschlagung der Demonstrationen auf dem Platz des Himmlischen Friedens (Tiananmen Square) 1989. Damals schrieb er seine Erfahrungen nieder und bettete sie in eine Geschichte der drei größten Religionen in China vor und nach der Revolution ein. Im Gespräch mit hochrangigen Vertretern Chinas, aber auch Aktivisten und Kirchenführern gelang ihm eine tiefschürfende Analyse. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt des Buches ist die Situation der Christen und Kirchen und ihre Zukunft im Land. In einem aktuellen Vorwort zu diesem zeitgeschichtlichen Dokument blickt der Autor zurück, sagt aber auch, dass die Religionsfreiheit immer noch ein ungelöstes Problem Chinas ist.
John Warwick Montgomery ist sowohl Jurist und international geachteter Menschenrechtsanwalt (als Professor an der Luton-Universität in England und als an den höchsten Gerichten in Großbritannien, Frankreich und den USA zugelassener Anwalt), als auch ordinierter Pfarrer und führender Theologe (als Professor am Trinity Theological Seminary in England und den USA). Er hat 9 akademische Grade erworben, darunter drei Promotionen in Theologie und Rechtswissenschaft.
Sein Lebenswerk umfasst über 50 in viele Sprachen übersetzte Bücher, die einen großen Einfluss auf die evangelikale Welt hatten und haben. Der brilliante Denker und tiefgläubige Lutheraner, der abwechselnd in Straßburg und London lebt, gilt weltweit als einer der führenden Apologeten des christlichen Glaubens der Gegenwart.
Dr. Montgomery?s latest book is one that every serious reader interested in clear Christian thinking should have on a table near her most comfortable reading chair. It is filled with a wide variety of bite-sized essays that are absolutely delightful ?knowledgeable, fun, witty, and unexpected. If you have never read the work of J. W. Montgomery before, you are in for a treat. This is a book that brings together his best writing from the past with his latest essays. It?s a Christian feast of ideas that celebrates our Lord and His unfailing Word.
Craig J. Hazen, Ph.D., Director, MA Program in Christian Apologetics, Biola University
What makes J. W. Montgomery tick? What has driven him over a massively productive career to such wide-ranging interests as computers and Chemnitz, legal theory and apologetics, human rights and Christology, Dawkins and Duchamp? The answer is clear: the gospel of Jesus Christ and its defense, articulation, and application to the real world in which the Word became flesh, died, and rose again as the Savior. Many of our best confessional-era theologians, both Lutheran and Reformed, were ?Renaissance men,? but that?s rarely the case today. Dr. Montgomery is a glaring exception and this book is a wonderful display of that full scope of his remarkable insights. While being an ardent defender of the Lutheran confession, he is far from parochial. Even in places where one might disagree, the clarity, logic, and relentless rigor of his arguments will kindle fires in hearths that we didn?t even know we had and make us better advocates for the gospel.
Dr. Michael Horton, J. Gresham Machen Professor of
Systematic Theology and Apologtics, Westminster Seminary California
John Warwick Montgomery (Ph.D., Chicago, D.Théol., Strasbourg, LL.D., Cardiff, Dr. [h.c.], Institute for Religion and Law, Moscow) is Emeritus Professor of Law and Humanities, University of Bedfordshire, England, Distinguished Research Professor of Apologetics and Christian Thought, Patrick Henry College, Virginia, U.S.A., and Director, International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism & Human Rights, Strasbourg, France. His legal speciality is the international and comparative law of human rights and he regularly pleads religious freedom cases before the European Court of Human Rights. He is a U.S. and U.K. citizen, the author of some fifty books in five languages, and is included in Who?s Who in America, Who?s Who in France, the European Biographical Directory, Who?s Who in the World, and Contemporary Authors.
Montgomery is considered by many to be the foremost living apologist for biblical Christianity. A renaissance scholar with a flair for controversy, he lives in France, England and the United States. He is an ordained Lutheran clergyman, an English barrister, an avocat à la cour, barreau de Paris, and is admitted to practice as a lawyer before the Supreme Court of the United States. He obtained acquittals for the ?Athens 3? missionaries on charges of proselytism at the Greek Court of Appeals in 1986 and won the leading religious liberty cases of Larissis v. Greece and Bessarabian Orthodox Church v. Moldova before the European Court of Human Rights.
John Warwick Montgomery ist sowohl lutherischer Theologieprofessor als auch bedeutender Menschenrechtsanwalt mit Zulassung in Frankreich, England und den USA. Der international anerkannte "elder statesman" der evangelikalen politischen Ethik legt hier Studien zu Religionsfreiheit, Ethik, Abtreibung, Wiederheirat, Euthanasie, Mafiabekämpfung usw. vor. In englischer Sprache.
36 Essays zur rechtlich geprägten Verteidigung des christlichen Glaubens durch den mehrfach promovierten Juristen und lutherischen Theologen John Warwick Montgomery, passend zum Reformationsjubiläum
"John Warwick Montgomery is considered to be one of the foremost living apologists for classical, biblical Christianity. A renaissance scholar with a flair for controversy, he lives in France, England and the United States. His international activities have brought him into personal contact with some of the most exciting events of our time: not only was he in China In June 1989, but he was In Fiji during its 1987 bloodless revolution, was involved in assisting East Germans to escape during the time of the Berlin Wall, and was in Paris during the revolutionary “days of May” 1968. He has had personal contact with world leaders such as President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and English Prime Minister Tony Blair. He has been centrally involved in evangelical and Lutheran church affairs such as the Wenham conference on the authority of Scripture and the inerrancy controversies in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. His public debates with atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair, Bishop James Pike, death-of-God advocate Thomas Altizer, and situation-ethicist Joseph Fletcher are historic.
His wife is the internationally-celebrated orchestral harpist Lanalee de Kant.
Dr. Montgomery is the author or editor of more than fifty books in five languages. He holds ten earned degrees, Including a Master of Philosophy in Law from the University of Essex, England, a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, a Doctorate of the University in Protestant Theology from the University of Strasbourg, France, and the higher doctorate in law (LL.D.) from the University of Cardiff, Wales. He is an ordained Lutheran clergyman, an English barrister, an avocat au Barreau de Paris, France, and is admitted to practise as a lawyer before the Supreme Court of the United States. He obtained acquittals for the “Athens 3” missionaries on charges of proselytism at the Greek Court of Appeals in 1986 and won the leading religious liberty cases of Larissis v. Greece and Bessarabian Orthodox Church v. Moldova before the European Court of Human Rights.
Professor Montgomery’s autobiography offers an opportunity for the reader to meet one of the most fascinating figures in the contemporary church—to understand how he attained his influence in so many diverse areas of modern life—and to comprehend the Christ-centered philosophy of life that has motivated all of his activities. This autobiography manifests the author’s willingness to speak frankly about those with whom he has agreed and disagreed and is lightened with his well-known sense of humour Readers have a remarkable—and unique—treat in store for them."
John Warwick Montgomery is considered to be one of the foremost living apologists for classical, biblical Christianity. A renaissance scholar with a flair for controversy, he lives in France, England and the United States. His international activities have brought him into personal contact with some of the most exciting events of our time: not only was he in China In June 1989, but he was In Fiji during its 1987 bloodless revolution, was involved in assisting East Germans to escape during the time of the Berlin Wall, and was in Paris during the revolutionary ?days of May? 1968. He has had personal contact with world leaders such as President Anwar Sadat of Egypt and English Prime Minister Tony Blair. He has been centrally involved in evangelical and Lutheran church affairs such as the Wenham conference on the authority of Scripture and the inerrancy controversies in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. His public debates with atheist Madalyn Murray O?Hair, Bishop James Pike, death-of-God advocate Thomas Altizer, and situation-ethicist Joseph Fletcher are historic.
His wife is the internationally-celebrated orchestral harpist Lanalee de Kant.
Dr. Montgomery is the author or editor of more than fifty books in five languages. He holds ten earned degrees, Including a Master of Philosophy in Law from the University of Essex, England, a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, a Doctorate of the University in Protestant Theology from the University of Strasbourg, France, and the higher doctorate in law (LL.D.) from the University of Cardiff, Wales. He is an ordained Lutheran clergyman, an English barrister, an avocat au Barreau de Paris, France, and is admitted to practise as a lawyer before the Supreme Court of the United States. He obtained acquittals for the ?Athens 3? missionaries on charges of proselytism at the Greek Court of Appeals in 1986 and won the leading religious liberty cases of Larissis v. Greece and Bessarabian Orthodox Church v. Moldova before the European Court of Human Rights.
Professor Montgomery?s autobiography offers an opportunity for the reader to meet one of the most fascinating figures in the contemporary church?to understand how he attained his influence in so many diverse areas of modern life?and to comprehend the Christ-centered philosophy of life that has motivated all of his activities. This auto- biography manifests the author?s willingness to speak frankly about those with whom he has agreed and disagreed and is lightened with his well-known sense of humour Readers have a remarkable?and unique?treat in store for them.
Einer der führenden Apologeten des christlichen Glaubens, lutherischer Theologieprofessor und Spitzenjurist, stellt die Geschichtsphilosophie führender Philosophen und Theologen auf den biblischen Prüfstand und zeigt auf, welche Bedeutung Jesus Christus für die Geschichte der Welt hat.
The right of parents to choose the kind of education their children receive is guaranteed by a number of international human rights conventions. However, the scope of these rights is disputed. One of the most controversial areas is that of homeschooling: the right of the parent to carry out a child?s education under his or her own supervision. This right exists in France, the United Kingdom, every American jurisdiction, and most English speaking countries, but is not recognized (except under very limited circumstances) in Germany and in Sweden. In this book, specialists in American, German, and European human rights law examine the questions underlying the philosophical and legal justification (or non-justification) of homeschooling in modern society.
Einer der führenden Apologeten des christlichen Glaubens, lutherischer Theologieprofessor und Spitzenjurist, verteidigt die historische Glaubwürdigkeit der Evangelien und der Lebensgeschichte Jesu einschließlich seiner Wunder.
Part Two in English Translation with Introduction and Notes and the French Original Reprinted.
KURZ: Französisches Original, englische Übersetzung und Kommentar zu dem wichtigsten Werk des 17. Jahrhunderts zu den Bibliotheken in Frankreich.
LANG: Louis Jacob de Saint-Charles offered a primary-source description of the libraries of France when Mazarin dominated 17th-century politics and France was the cultural capital of Europe. Here, for the first time, Jacob's work is made available in English translation, with an introduction placing the book in the context of western intellectual history and accompanied by a detailed scholarly commentary. Both library historians and students of French culture in the early modern period will find this book indispensable.
Der lutherische Theologieprofessor John Warwick Montgomery ist zugleich Anwalt bei den höchsten Gerichten in Großbritannine, Frankreich und USA. In seinem reifen Alterswerk verteidigt er den christlichen Glauben gegen kritische Einwände verschiedener Philosophen und weist in messerscharfer und minutiös gegliederter Argumentation nach, dass sich Denken und christlicher Glaube nicht ausschließen, sondern gegenseitig beginnen.