God for a Secular Society: The Public Relevance of Theology
Overview
In this masterful analysis of the religious and political dilemmas at the end of the modern age, world-renowned theologian Jürgen Moltmann assays the vaulting dreams and colossal failures of our time. He asks how we came to this point, and he argues strenuously for Christian discipleship and public theology that take sides. In both critical and creative ways he advances the specific relevance of Christian messianic hope to today’s thorniest political, economic, and ecological questions—including human rights, environmental rights, globalization, market capitalism, fundamentalisms, and Jewish-Christian relations—and the deeper values contested therein.
In a world reeling between utopia and disaster, Moltmann passionately and provocatively shows how Christian discipleship, through engagement and solidarity, can blaze a redemptive path.
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Key Features
- Analyzes religious and political dilemmas at the end of the modern age
- Argues for Christian discipleship and public theology that take sides
- Explains how Christian discipleship can blaze a redemptive path
Contents
- Theology in the Project of Modernity
- Covenant or Leviathan? Political Theology at the Beginning of Modern Times
- Political Theology and the Theology of Liberation
- Christian Faith in the Changing Values of the Modern World
- The Destruction and Liberation of the Earth: Ecological Theology
- Human Rights–Rights of Humanity–Rights of the Earth
- The Knowing of the Other and the Community of the Different
- Freedom in Community between Globalization and Individualism: Market Value and Human Dignity
- The Pit–Where Was God? Jewish and Christian Theology after Auschwitz
- Protestantism: ‘The Religion of Freedom’
- Liberalism and Fundamentalism in the Modern Era
- Dialogue or Mission? Christianity and the Religions in an Endangered Word
- Theology for the Church and the Kingdom of God in the Modern University
Product Details
- Title: God for a Secular Society: The Public Relevance of Theology
- Author: Jürgen Moltmann
- Translator: Margaret Kohl
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Publication Date: 1999
- Pages: 304
- Christian Group: Reformed
- Resource Type: Systematic Theologies
- 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
“If the church takes theology seriously, it must, like the church, become a function of the kingdom of God in the world. As a function of the kingdom of God, theology belongs within all the different sectors of a society’s life too—political, cultural, economic and ecological.” (Page 252)
“What believers do in the churches is representative, and related to, and on behalf of, the whole cosmos” (Pages 104–105)
“Ecumenism is the discovery of the other, and reciprocal acceptance of others in their otherness” (Page 203)
“In the ‘prophetic’ religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the liberty and equality of all human beings is derived from belief in creation—which the American Declaration of Independence also talks about (‘… endowed by their Creator …’). The fact that all human beings are made in the image of God is the foundation of human dignity. Human beings are intended to live in this relation to God.” (Page 122)
“There is no future without hope. There is no life without love. There is no new assurance without faith. It is the task of evangelization and of the witness of Christian life to proclaim the living Christ and to awaken in us the Spirit of life.” (Page 244)
- Title: God for a Secular Society: The Public Relevance of Theology
- Author: Jürgen Moltmann
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 1999
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Church and the world; Theology, doctrinal
- Resource ID: LLS:GODSECSOCMOLTMANN
- Resource Type: Monograph
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