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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.
Jrgen Moltmann formulates necessary questions about the
significance of Jesus the Christ for persons today. He offers a
compelling portrait of the earthly Jesus as the divine brother in
our distress and suffering and points to the risen Christ as the
warrant for the "future in which God will restore everything . . .
and gather everything into his kingdom." Urging that acknowledgment
of Christ and discipleship are two sides of the same coin, Moltmann
contends that the question of Jesus Christ for today is not just an
intellectual one. Moltmann takes fresh approaches to a number of
crucial topics: Jesus and the kingdom of God, the passion of Christ
and the pain of God, Jesus as brother of the tortured, and the
resurrection of Christ as hope for the world, the cosmic Christ,
Jesus in Jewish- Christian dialogue, the future of God, and others.
How does Christian ethics begin? This pioneering study explores the
grammar of the Christian life as it is embodied and learned in
worship as the formative experience of the 'fellow citizens of
God's people'. The book presents the first in-depth theological
investigation of the phenomenon of 'political worship' by exposing
the political nature of worship and the worship dimension of
politics. In a careful analysis of biblical and traditional
conceptions of worship, Wannenwetsch demonstrates how the genuine
political character of worship neutralizes attempts to politicize
or de-politicize it. In the imprinting of the experience of divine
reconciliation on the Christian body, worship challenges the
deepest antagonisms of political theory and practice: antagonisms
of 'private and public', 'freedom and necessity', and 'action and
contemplation'. At the same time, the 'spill over' of worship into
every sphere of life instils a healthy suspicion of post-liberal
conceptualizations of role-mobility. In the experience of 'hearing
in communion', an encounter with a word that does not deceive
announces the end of the rule of the hermeneutics of suspicion.
Further questions discussed include the conditions of true
consensus, forgiveness as a political virtue, `political rhetoric'
between accountability and self-justification, how 'reversible
role-taking' can avoid losing the otherness of the other, and how
the rhetoric of 'responsibility' can be saved from hubris or
depression. Particular practices or dimensions of worship
(confession, preaching, praising, intercession, observance of holy
days) are examined and their heuristic and formative potentials
explored in relation to these topics. A special feature of the
study is a strong ecumenical and international focus. The book
brings into conversation a variety of traditions (including
Lutheran, Catholic, Anglican, and Orthodox) and contemporary
voices. An original contribution to Christian ethics, the book
addresses systematic and practical theology as well as political
theory, while indicating the essential interpenetration of these
disciplines.
Jurgen Moltmann's life and work have marked the history of theology
after the Second World War in Europe and North America like no
other. He is the most widely read, quoted, and translated
theologian of our time. His systematic work thrives on the cutting
edge of Christian theology in the twenty-first century, challenging
and stimulating a whole generation of theologians to work at
theology in different and more comprehensive ways.
Provides a methodological afterword (rather than a foreword) to
Moltmann's systematic contributions to theology. Presents theology
as an adventure of ideas, shaped by his personal career and the
political context through which he has lived.
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