Michael Krüger Livres

Et si les animaux partaient à la reconquête de leur habitat ?. Après un début d'été plutôt frais, la canicule tombe sur la ville. Ceux qui râlaient contre le mauvais temps pestent de plus belle contre la chaleur. Quelques jours plus tard, de petites bestioles envahissent sournoisement la cité : mouches, moustiques, araignées, mais aussi guêpes et tiques qui trouvent là un superbe garde-manger. Les rues sont bientôt sillonnées de gens qui se grattent et se tapent les joues. Plus les jours passent, plus la taille des animaux qui s'installent en ville est... imposante. La population ne tarde pas à redouter la fin de la société urbaine. Seuls les enfants apprécient ce bouleversement et se réjouissent de voir un ours se régaler, par poignées gourmandes, des pralines d'une confiserie.

Spiritual abusers are Christian bullies. And high profile cases of pastoral bullying are only a small portion of this widespread problem. Victims suffer in silence, not knowing where to turn. We need gentle shepherds now more than ever, and in Bully Pulpit, Michael J. Kruger reveals how to spot spiritual abuse and how to handle it in the church.

Writing in the form of a letter to his college-age daughter, Michael Kruger's Surviving Religion 101 takes a topical approach to examining some of the toughest questions Christian students encounter at secular universities.

These thirteen stories capture the poignancy and cynicism of late life through tales of misanthropic old men full of the mixture of wisdom and melancholy that so often accompanies old age.

This introductory survey looks at how Christianity took root in the second century, how it battled to stay true to the vision of Christ's apostles, and how it developed in ways that would shape both the Church and Western culture over the next two thousand years.

The Seasonal Time Change, although a man-made occurrence, is embedded in nature’s principles. It uses an abstract construct to exact more sunlight for mankind in an over-organized, technological world. In a similar vein, these poems cast an exacting eye on nature, an observant, stringent and very human eye, both intellectually and emotionally; sometimes scrutinizing, sometimes wistful of the brutality of nature, sometimes simply joyful at the wonder of life. Proximity and relationships are ongoing themes in this volume which also bears witness to Michael Krüger’s personal encounters with other renowned poets, writers and artists with whom he has become acquainted during his work as director of Hanser publishing house. With each recurring time change, Krüger presents new joys and losses. He reminds us of our own mortality, of the finiteness of nature and our lacking proximity to it. In doing so, however, he also reminds us of the need for celebration, even--perhaps especially--in times of darkness.

The New Testament has been the focus of Kruger's research and writing for many years. It is an exciting field of study that probes into questions that have long fascinated both scholars and laymen alike, namely when and how these 27 books came to be regarded as a new scriptural deposit. But, the story of the New Testament canon is bigger than just the 'when' and the 'how'. It is also, and perhaps most fundamentally, about the 'why'. Why did Christians have a cannon at all? Does the canon exist because of some later decision or action of the second- or third-century church? Or did it arise more naturally from within the Christian faith itself? These are the questions this book is designed to address.

Exploring the history of the New Testament text from a theological perspective, Michael Kruger helps Christians understand the facts behind their faith and the legitimacy of the New Testament Scriptures.

A personal perspective on the challenges of living through a global pandemic. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Michael Krüger was suffering from severe shingles and just beginning treatment for leukemia. Because his immune system was so compromised that even a cough would have knocked him flat, he had to stay away from people. He retired to a wooden house near Lake Starnberg in Germany, and from there he dispatched his poetic messages. Krüger's meditations from quarantine were printed for many months in the magazine of the Süddeutsche Zeitung and met with an enthusiastic response. In a Cabin, in the Woods collects fifty tableaux of nature, images of the immediate surroundings of a restricted life that also look beyond the horizon. At the same time, these poems look inwards to explore transience, illness, and death. Humorous and melancholy, these are studies of the world made with the tiniest compass--meditations on nature and the nature of self that touch us all.

Bilingual edition, German and English"A well-disguised mystic, a scribe who has got beyond books, to the point where the wisdom of masters begins the absurd wisdom which writes its final word on water. It would not be entirely wrong, either, to call Kruger a master of the love-poem, a first-rate painter of landscapes and climates, a reviver of the Roman Elegy, a painter's poet. But he is all these things with a difference: there is a remainder which in rational terms should not exist, which one will only discover if one is not looking for it and which is everything."—Adolf Muschg, author of The Blue Man and Other Stories