In the End—The Beginning: The Life of Hope
Overview
As Jürgen Moltmann’s award-winning volume The Coming of God laid out the systematic framework of eschatology (the doctrine of the “last things”), so here he explores the personal meaning of that fundamental affirmation for Christians. Debunking the classic images of Christian apocalyptic scenarios, the final struggle between God and Satan, Christ and the Antichrist—Armageddon—Moltmann instead shows that Christian expectation of the future has nothing to do with these but everything to do with new beginnings and a horizon of hope. Three parts explore three particular beginnings: birth (childhood and youth), rebirth (failures and defeats), and resurrection (death, judgment, afterlife).
This brief volume promises to be one of Moltmann’s most personal and compelling books.
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Key Features
- Explores three beginnings of eschatology: beginnings, rebirth, and resurrection
- Discusses the personal meaning of the future for Christians
Contents
- The Promise of the Child
- Does the Future Belong to the Young?
- New Beginnings in Catastrophes: Biblical Catastrophe Theology
- Deliver Us from Evil: God’s Righteousness and Justice and the Rebirth of Life
- The Spirituality of the Wakeful Senses
- The Living Power of Hope
- Is There a Life after Death?
- Mourning and Consoling
- The Community of the Living and the Dead
- What Awaits Us?
- Eternal Life
Praise for the Print Edition
In our time, beset by end-of-history threats of fanatical apocalyptic terrorism and by progressive everyday terrorism that millions suffer through globalization, Moltmann here uncovers the grace-filled beginnings of peace and the love of life that God is already making present to us and the whole creation.
—M. Douglas Meeks, Religious Studies Review
Product Details
- Title: In the End—The Beginning: The Life of Hope
- Author: Jürgen Moltmann
- Translator: Margaret Kohl
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Publication Date: 2004
- Pages: 192
- Christian Group: Reformed
- Resource Type: Systematic Theologies
- Topic: Eschatology
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
“Far from leading human beings away from earth to heaven, the Christian hope leads them to the kingdom of God which comes on earth. It is the angels who belong to heaven. Human beings have come from the earth and belong on earth, and do so in both time and eternity. If heaven opens for them, it is heaven on earth. The kingdom of God has a direct relationship to the earth. It lives with the earth, and it is only on earth that human beings can seek the kingdom of God.” (Page 160)
“I began to understand the Christ who was assailed by God and suffered from God, because I felt that he understood me. That gave me new courage to live. I saw colours again, heard music again, and felt the stirrings of renewed vitality.” (Page 35)
“Justifying faith is not just a faith through which human beings are justified; it is a faith through which God is justified too.” (Page 78)
“It is therefore Christ’s resurrection from the dead which reveals the saving significance of his death on the cross.14” (Page 75)
“In every child the messiah can be born’, says a Jewish proverb. So every child deserves respect” (Page 4)
- Title: In the End—The Beginning: The Life of Hope
- Author: Jürgen Moltmann
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 2004
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Hope › Religious aspects--Christianity; Life cycle, Human › Religious aspects--Christianity; Eschatology
- Resource ID: LLS:INTHEENDMOLTMANN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:00:35Z