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Modern humanity has accepted a truncated, impoverished definition
of life. Focusing solely on material realities, we have forgotten
that joy, purpose, and meaning come from a life that is both
immersed in the temporal and alive to the transcendent. We have, in
other words, ceased to live in God. In this book, renowned
theologian Jurgen Moltmann shows us what that life of joy and
purpose looks like. Describing how we came to live in a world
devoid of the ultimate, he charts a way back to an intimate
connection with the biblical God. He counsels that we adopt a
"theology of life," an orientation that sees God at work in both
the mundane and the extraordinary and that pushes us to work for a
world that fully reflects the life of its Creator. Moltmann offers
a telling critique of the shallow values of consumerist society and
provides a compelling rationale for why spiritual sensibilities and
encounter with God must lie at the heart of any life that seeks to
be authentically human.
Over the last four decades, the focus of M. Douglas Meeks's work
has placed him at the centre of many of the most important
developments in theological reflection and education. As a
political, ecclesial, and metaphorical theologian, Meeks has given
witness to the oikonomia of the triune God, the Homemaker who
creates the conditions of Home for the whole of creation, in
critical conversation with contemporary economic, social, and
political theory. The essays of this volume were written to honour
Meeks, Cal Turner Chancellor Professor Emeritus of Theology at
Vanderbilt University Divinity School, by addressing the theme of
God's economy of salvation from biblical, historical, ecclesial,
and theological perspectives. In an age of ecological devastation
and economic injustice, Meeks teaches us how to place our hope - as
disciples of Jesus, as members of local congregations, as stewards
of institutional life, and as global citizens - in God's power for
life over death through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. These
essays will serve to enliven and clarify this hope for the sake of
the world God so loves.
The liberating work of God calls the oppressed out of oppression
and the oppressor out of oppressing. The challenge in seeking a
thorough liberation of oppressors is to help them understand their
need for freedom and how to seek this freedom in their own
contexts. Patrick Oden provides a holistic biblical, historical,
and theological analysis that diagnoses the underlying motivations
and inclinations that lead to oppression. Part one addresses the
context of oppression, in which most participants in oppression do
not actively seek to harm others but are caught up in systems that
tend toward the diminishment of others. Part two examines the
biblical and early Christian response to oppression, discovering a
thread that avoids condemning participation in society generally
while also cautioning the people of God about being co-opted by
society. Part three discusses how oppressors can withdraw from
oppression, through a constructive analysis of four contemporary
theologians-Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jurgen Moltmann, Sarah Coakley,
and Jean Vanier-each of whom contributes to a widening vision of
liberated and liberating life in which the once-oppressed and
former oppressor can find peace together in community.
Borrowing is a problem that Dietrich Bonhoeffer struggled with
throughout his life and especially in active resistance to the
Hitler dictatorship. We only "passively" share in the guilt of
others (for example, in intercession), or we have to Become
"actively" guilty (eg in resistance)? How is taking responsibility
linked to responsible action? These and other questions are
critically examined in relation to Bonhoeffer's entire works,
especially his ethics.
Since the calls of the Second Vatican Council, Roman Catholic
theologians have sought to overcome an overarching problem facing
Jewish-Christian relations, the concept of "supersessionism"; the
idea that God has revoked the spiritual and historical promises
made to the Jewish people in favour of granting those same
privileges to a predominantly Gentile Church. Israel, the Church,
and Millenarianism breaks new ground by applying an ancient
principle to the problem of Israel's "replacement": the early
Church's promotion of millennialism. Utilizing the best in
Patristic research, Aguzzi argues that these earliest Christian
traditions made room for the future of Israel because Christ's
reign in the Church was viewed as provisional to his historical
reign on earth-Israel's role in salvation history was and is not
yet complete. Aguzzi's research also opens the door for a greater
Catholic understanding of the millennial principle, not shying away
from its validity and relevance for understanding the importance of
safeguarding Jewish particularity, while concluding that the
Synagogue and the Church are indeed on a parallel trajectory;
"...what will their...[Israel's]...acceptance be but life from the
dead?" (Romans 11:15). Ultimately, the divine will is fulfilled
through both Christian and Jewish means, in history, while each
community is dependent, in different ways, upon the unfolding of
God's future and the coming Parousia of Christ.
Since the calls of the Second Vatican Council, Roman Catholic
theologians have sought to overcome an overarching problem facing
Jewish-Christian relations, the concept of "supersessionism"; the
idea that God has revoked the spiritual and historical promises
made to the Jewish people in favour of granting those same
privileges to a predominantly Gentile Church. Israel, the Church,
and Millenarianism breaks new ground by applying an ancient
principle to the problem of Israel's "replacement": the early
Church's promotion of millennialism. Utilizing the best in
Patristic research, Aguzzi argues that these earliest Christian
traditions made room for the future of Israel because Christ's
reign in the Church was viewed as provisional to his historical
reign on earth-Israel's role in salvation history was and is not
yet complete. Aguzzi's research also opens the door for a greater
Catholic understanding of the millennial principle, not shying away
from its validity and relevance for understanding the importance of
safeguarding Jewish particularity, while concluding that the
Synagogue and the Church are indeed on a parallel trajectory;
"...what will their...[Israel's]...acceptance be but life from the
dead?" (Romans 11:15). Ultimately, the divine will is fulfilled
through both Christian and Jewish means, in history, while each
community is dependent, in different ways, upon the unfolding of
God's future and the coming Parousia of Christ.
Jurgen Moltmann's The Crucified God is one of the most influential
theological books of the twentieth century and a classic to be
found on every reading list on Christian doctrine. Arguably the
most powerful of Moltmann's books. The Crucified God is a seminal
work on the crucifixion and its significance. The book takes death,
despair and dreadfulness, the dark side of the human condition,
with total seriousness and relates these to a liberating hope of
redemption through divine agony and suffering. Influential for many
years, especially with political and liberation theologians, but
also much more widely, the book represents a concentrated blast of
hard-edged doctrinal reflection and will continue to inspire
upcoming generations who take seriously the life-changing notion
that 'God was in Christ.' Reissued with a new foreword by the
author himself.
"The following efforts bear the title Theology of Hope, not because
they set out once again to present eschatology as a separate
doctrine and to compete with the well known textbooks. Rather,
their aim is to show how theology can set out from hope and begin
to consider its theme in an eschatological light. For this reason
they inquire into the ground of the hope of Christian faith and
into the responsible exercise of this hope in thought and action in
the world today. The various critical discussions should not be
understood as rejections and condemnations. They are necessary
conversations on a common subject which is so rich that it demands
continual new approaches."
Winner of Grawemeyer Award In this remarkable and timely work - in
many ways the culmination of his systematic theology -
world-renowned theologian Jurgen Moltmann stands Christian
eschatology on its head. Moltmann rejects the traditional approach,
which focuses on the End, an apocalyptic finale, as a kind of
Christian search for the final solution. He centers instead on hope
and God's promise of new creation for all things. Christian
eschatology, he says, is the remembered hope of the raising of the
crucified Christ, so it talks about beginning afresh in the deadly
end. Yet Moltmann's novel framework, deeply informed by Jewish and
messianic thought, also fosters rich and creative insights into the
perennially nettling questions of eschatology: Are there eternal
life and personal identity after death? How is one to think of
heaven, hell, and purgatory? What are the historical and
cosmological dimensions of Christian hope? What are its social and
political implications. In a heartbreakingly fragile and fragment
world, Moltmann's comprehensive eschatology surveys the Christian
vista, bravely envisioning our horizons of expectation for
personal, social, even cosmic transformation in God.
Theology always has been (and is for Moltmann) not an abstract or
otherworldly endeavor but one nourished by, and responsive to,
experiences in and with life itself. In this volume, the final in
his series of systematic "contributions" to theology, Moltmann
looks ahead from the landmarks of his own theological journey. He
searches out those intersections of his own life with contemporary
events that have kindled and impelled his theological thinking
(part 1). The perspective of hope, the central moment in Moltmann's
thought, is freshly explained, while other basic theological themes
and concepts are developed and interrelated (part 2).
But more than that, Moltmann uses these theological tinders to
spark the flames of the chief directions in liberating theological
thought today -- black, Latin American, Minjung, and feminist
theologies -- (part 3) and the central motif of Trinity (part
4).
This volume not only introduces Moltmann's theology, it also
utilizes the contemporary religious and political scene to incite
ones own theological reflection.
"This book, which in my opinion is Moltmann's best, can be
recommended on the basis that it contains challenging and creative
insights that can be used by the discriminating reader in the
service of church renewal...Moltmann represents the theology of
liberation at its best, and those who wish to know more about this
theology would do well to study this creative and searching
theologian." --Donald G. Bloesch Christianity Today "Moltmann is
perhaps unsurpassed among his contemporaries in keenness of insight
and rhetorical power." --Daniel L. Migliore, Theology Today
"Moltmann presents a stirring vision which every Christian
community could well ponder...With a missionary emphasis, he seeks
to help the reader face the question of the church's identity in
the light of the contemporary political, economic, and social
scene." --Religious Education
Moltmann, "the foremost Protestant theologian in the world" (Church
Times), brings his characteristic audacity to this traditional
topic and cuts to the heart of the matter with a simple
identification: What we experience every day as the spirit of life
is the spirit of God. Such considerations give Moltmann's treatment
of the different aspects of life in Spirit a verve and vitality
that are concrete and existential.
Veteran readers will find here a rich and subtle extension of
Moltmann's trinitarian and christological works, even as he makes
bold use of key insights from feminist and ecological theologies,
from recent attention to embodiment, and from charismatic
movements. Newcomers will find a fascinating entree into the heart
of his work: the transformative potential of the future.
Moltmann develops a theology of the Holy Spirit that links the
Christian community's experience of the Spirit to the
sanctification and liberation of life. He brilliantly displays the
ecological and political significance of Christian belief in the
Trinity.
In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus puts aside his usual parables and
speaks plainly in language anyone can understand. Like Francis of
Assisi and others, Arnold chose to live out Jesus teachings by
embracing their self- sacrificing demands. In this collection of
talks and essays, he calls us to live for the Sermon s ultimate
goal: the overturning of the prevailing order of injustice. In its
place, Arnold writes, we must build up a just, peaceable society
motivated by love."
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All Things New (Hardcover)
Brock Bingaman; Foreword by Jurgen Moltmann
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For a time of peril, world-renowned theologian Jrgen Moltmann
offers an ethical framework for the future. Long distinguished as
the architect of political theology and father of the theology of
hope, Moltmann has shown how hope in the future decisively
reconfigures the present and shapes our understanding of central
Christian convictions, from creation to New Creation. Now, in an
era of unprecedented scientific advances alongside unparalleled
global dangers, Moltmann has formulated his long-awaited Ethics of
Hope. Building on his conviction that Christian existence and
social matters are inextricably tied together in the political
sphere, Moltmann unfolds his ethics in light of eschatology,
clearly distinguishing it from prior and competing visions of
Christian ethics. He then specifies his vision with an ethic of
life (against the dominant ethic of death), an ethic of earth
(against todays utilitarian ethic), and an ethic of justice
(against todays social injustice and global conflicts). In the
process, he applies this framework to concrete issues of medical
ethics, ecological ethics, and just-war ethics. A creative and
programmatic work, Ethics of Hope is a realistic assessment of the
human prospect, as well as its imperatives, from one who stakes
everything on Gods promise to rescue life from the jaws of death.
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