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Anabaptists: An invitation to forgive
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Liz Hess's painting of the Emmental area in Switzerland looks
deceptively idyllic: Green pastures, snow-capped mountains, a church
spire, grazing cows, gentle farms and a winding pathway.
It's only the informed observer who will understand the darker
significance of the Trachselwald Castle at the foot of the Die Furgge
mountain in the painting.
Trachselwald Castle is where Anabaptist leaders were imprisoned,
tortured and sometimes killed from the 1500s until the 1700s because
they opposed the Reformed Church's teaching requiring infant baptism.
Anabaptists also refused to ...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...painter, 1876; Marcel Proust, author, 1922; Thomas Power O'Connor, journalist and politician, 1929; Niels Henrik David Bohr, physicist, 1962; Mervyn Laurence Peake, author and artist, 1968; Walter Wanger (Feuchtwanger), film...
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Leading a net.(network)(Report)
Magazine article from: Public Management
; How a wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress. --NIELS HENRIK DAVID BOHR, DANISH PHYSICIST AND WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN PHYSICS, 1922 The leader is the person at the top of an organization...
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Obituary: Professor Paul Feyerabend
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...English. Other visitors included Georg Henrik von Wright the young American philosopher...symposium on philosophy and physics with David Bohm, J.P. Vigier and others...scholarly defence of the physicist Niels Bohr against Popper's criticisms of...
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