The downfall of Christianity in Europe
Christianity constitutes no less than the the roots European and western civilization. Today, however, churches in the German speaking world are more empty than full, and Christian belief is increasingly considered a relic of history, due to a complicated confluence of historical, cultural, and philosophical shifts in western thought.
An unexpected comeback
In the last decades, however, a rediscovery of the tremendous intellectual plausibility of key Christian claims** has emerged in academia and is slowly making its way to popular culture.
On the level of cultural movements worldwide, it has become for many clear that Christianity is far from the child's myth they had once dismissed it as being, but rather in contrast offers incomparable treasures of existential meaning and grounding for humanity in understanding reality as well as human consciousness itself.
Much of this revolution has occurred in the English speaking sphere, and therefore many of the sources we draw upon we translate from the original English into German in order to make them more accessible to a German speaking audience. Other sources we draw upon reflect German thinkers who also have penetrating insights for the western world today to consider.
**For example, in academic circles the existence of God has become a far more respectable hypothesis on the basis of the contingency and fine-tuning of the universe. Further important aspects of Christian have also been shown to have considerable amounts of historical or philosophical evidence, such as the resurrection of Jesus, the immateriality of consciousness, the reliability of the New testament, and etc. Theism has presented itself as an entirely reasonable alternative to the widespread naturalism throughout the western world.
Our motivation
We belong to the growing number of people who have been overwhelmed with the intellectual merits of Christianity after finally taking Christianity seriously. We want to make the investigation and discussion of the Christian faith more accessible, through highlighting philosophical and cultural contributions from around the world.
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We are an international and ecumenical group situated in mid-Germany. We have our own stories of conversion from atheism and agnosticism to Christianity and want to share what we have found. Our motivation is simple: to honor God by making his message available to all. We're here to give everyone an opportunity to better understand Christianity.
Intellectual Honesty
While we are convinced that Christianity as the most reasonable view to adopt from a philosophical, existential, and moral perspective, as students of Philosophy we also place a high value on intellectual honesty. For this reason we are also quick to discuss and offer our perspective on any real intellectual weak-points of the Christian faith.
All worldviews, whether through the limitations of human thought categories or the state of academic discourse, have weak points and aspects of reality that they do not seem to explain as well. We believe any discussion of or advocacy of a worldview should be able to admit such points, especially in light of the fact that the existence of weak-points can easily be overwhelmed by strong points in their favor.
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