Show reverence toward the Word. Speach or words are what molds us. Often we missuse, we neglect speach. She threatens or we are not able to use her well enough. However, as much as we can use words to abuse or hurt, as much can we use them to comfort through them. Through words we listen and understand not only ourselves but the others around us. A great philosopher said "through their speach you shall recognize them". So my message is "go back to the Word, that stood at the beginning".
Wendelin Schmidt-Dengler is known as one of the most outstanding professors of Literature in Austria. 1942 born in Zagreb, as a young adult he began to study literature and philology. During his career he received several awards, the latest one "greatest Austrian scientist of the year 2007". Schmidt-Dengler not only teaches as a professor in Vienna, but also at the University of Pisa, Neaples, Klagenfurt, Salzburg, Graz and Stanford. During the last years he published about 400 publications.
As a Christian he loves the "word-mighty" Jesus, he is impressed by Jesus´unconventional behaviour where he throws the salesmen out of the temple. He thinks the church of today could put much more importance on not excluding others, in living more up to what the Gospel teaches, especially not to exclude people that are different. He loves the Jesus, that comunes and communicates with the so called outcasts of society, with the tax collectors as well as with Mary Magdalene.
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