The Last Christians with Andreas Knapp
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The Christian Research Institute
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🗓️ 4 October 2017
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Topics discussed include: Knapp explains what the Little Brothers of the Gospel society is (3:00); why Knapp left his post as the head of a seminary to live on the margins of society amongst the poor (5:30); Germany’s transition away from Christianity and the need for Christians to stop fighting one another and to unite around the essentials (11:00); how Western Christianity often neglects to understand Eastern Christianity (16:30); the strength of witness when we live our lives like Christ (20:00); the Christian refugees in Germany that inspired Knapp and brought him to the Middle East (26:30); why Knapp titled his book The Last Christians (30:30); the political roots of Islam preclude true democratic development in Islamic countries (35:00); the danger of placing ideology above common humanity (45:30); the use of the fourteenth letter of the Arabic alphabet as a sign of solidarity with Christians suffering persecution (49:00); the problem of Islamic migration without assimilation in the West (51:00); the two competing movements in Turkey today (57:30); the difference between martyrdom in Christianity and Islam (1:01:00); why Knapp wrote The Last Christians (1:05:00).
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| 0:56.5 | This is the podcast that takes me out of the studio into the study. |
| 1:01.7 | And I interview some of the most interesting and enlightening people on the planet. |
| 1:06.4 | And today is no exception. |
| 1:08.7 | I have an opportunity to interview Andreas Knnapp. And he wrote a book called |
| 1:15.0 | The Last Christians, Stories of Persecution, Flight and Resilience in the Middle East. I feel we |
| 1:23.2 | have a little in common in that we're both Scandinavian. I was born in Holland. Andreas is German. |
| 1:31.2 | And we both wrote about Islam, but his book is a first-hand account that came about in a very, |
| 1:41.5 | very unusual way. And I want to talk about that in just a few moments. But |
| 1:46.6 | what's very interesting to me about Andreas is that he was the head of a seminary, and he has |
| 1:53.3 | chosen to live in a different way today. He is a monastic member of the Little Brothers of the Gospel. This is a group that |
| 2:04.3 | consciously seeks to live at the margins of society. And I look at some of his poetry. He is a poet as |
| 2:12.7 | well as a scholastic, and I think of the phrases, the faces of the people are the icons we venerate, |
| 2:21.1 | and in the countenances marked by suffering, we see the crucified one. |
| 2:27.4 | Or a couple of other phrases from a poem, no longer harboring illusions of greatness. |
| 2:35.1 | You humble yourself as human. |
| 2:38.3 | Only God is great. |
| 2:41.3 | Adoration now belongs to him alone. |
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