A Broad Place: An Autobiography
Overview
Jürgen Moltmann’s life and work have marked the theological history since WWII like no other. He is the most widely read, quoted, and translated German theologian of our time. Now, after celebrating his eightieth birthday, he looks back on a life that has been engaged in forging a Christian response to the tumult and opportunities of our age. In his autobiography Moltmann tells his compelling life story, from his Hamburg youth in an unconventional home up to the “incompleteness” of the present moment. His narrative sheds light on the creative arc of Moltmann’s work, on the journey of his own theological development from its beginnings after World War II through the beginnings of political theology and, most phenomenally, the advent of the theology of hope.
A wide-ranging alert to the deeper currents of his time and ours, Moltmann’s work is an engrossing reconsideration of a life full of intense experience and new beginnings.
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Key Features
- Tells the compelling life story of Jürgen Moltmann
- Sheds light on the creative arc of Moltmann’s work
- Discusses Motlmann’s theological development
Contents
- Youth
- Apprenticeship
- Beginnings
- Theology of Hope
- Political Theology
- In the Sign of the Cross to New Trinitarian Thinking
- Uncompleted Completions— the Challenges of Life
- In the End—the Beginning
Praise for the Print Edition
Jürgen Moltmann may be the most renowned theologian living today. . . His autobiography offers us the chance to understand him better than ever before.
—The Christian Century
Product Details
- Title: A Broad Place: An Autobiography
- Author: Jürgen Moltmann
- Translator: Margaret Kohl
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Publication Date: 2009
- Pages: 414
- Christian Group: Reformed
- Resource Type: Autobiography
- Topic: Theology
About Jürgen Moltmann
Jürgen Moltmann studied Christian theology in England and, after his return to Germany, in Göttingen. He served as a pastor from 1952 to1958 in Bremen. Since 1967 he has been Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen and retired there in 1994. Among his many influential and award-winning books are The Theology of Hope (1967), The Crucified God (1974), The Trinity and the Kingdom (1981), The Spirit of Life (1994), and The Coming of God (1996), winner of the Grawemeyer Award in 2000, all published by Fortress Press.
Top Highlights
“Here a ‘hermeneutical circle’ developed, not the one between textual interpretation and one’s own private interpretation, as in Bultmann, but the one between textual interpretation and the experience of a community of people, in their families, among their neighbours, and in their work. In conversations, in teaching, and in preaching I came to believe that this was a shared theology of believers and doubters, the downcast and the consoled.” (Page 60)
“But what I have been sure of ever since my early experiences of death in the firestorm in Hamburg in 1943 was, and still is, the need to find an answer to the question, Why am I alive, and not dead like the others? Everything I have begun in my life was an attempt to answer this question.” (Page ix)
“If the future of Christ is delegated to the calendar, we have to wait for it; but if we accept it in its hope, we become creatively active in order to fall into line with it and to prepare the way for it.” (Page 154)
“During that night I cried out to God for the first time in my life and put my life in his hands. I was as if dead, and ever after received life every day as a new gift. My question was not, ‘Why does God allow this to happen?’ but, ‘My God, where are you?’ And there was the other question, the answer to which I am still looking for today: Why am I alive and not dead, too, like the friend at my side? I felt the guilt of survival and searched for the meaning of continued life. I knew that there had to be some reason why I was still alive. During that night I became a seeker after God.” (Page 17)
- Title: A Broad Place: An Autobiography
- Author: Jürgen Moltmann
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 2009
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Moltmann, Jürgen
- Resource ID: LLS:BRDPLCMOLTMANN
- Resource Type: text.monograph.autobiography
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