Experiences in Theology: Ways and Forms of Christian Theology
Overview
Theology always has been, and is for Jürgen 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 Beiträge (systematic “contributions” to theology), Moltmann revisits the landmarks of his own theological journey. He examines those intersections of his own life with contemporary events that have kindled and impelled his theological thinking. 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.
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—and the central motif of Trinity.
This volume not only introduces Moltmann’s theology, but it also utilizes the contemporary religious and political scene to incite the novice’s own theological reflection.
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Key Features
- Revisits the landmarks of Jürgen Moltmann’s theological journey
- Discusses the chief direction in liberating theological thought today
- Utilizes the contemporary religious and political scene to incite theological reflection
Contents
- What is Theology?
- Hermeneutics of Hope
- Mirror Images of Liberating Theology
- The ‘Broad Place’ of the Trinity
Praise for the Print Edition
Moltmann’s systematic work thrives on the cutting edge of Christian theology. . . . It will challenge and stimulate a whole generation of theologians to work at theology in different and more comprehensive ways.
—M. Douglas Meeks, Vanderbilt Divinity School
Product Details
- Title: Experiences in Theology: Ways and Forms of Christian Theology
- Author: Jürgen Moltmann
- Translator: Margaret Kohl
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Publication Date: 2000
- Pages: 320
- 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
“My whole concern has been, and still is, to stimulate other people to discover theology for themselves—to have their own theological ideas, and to set out along their own paths.” (Page xv)
“We all felt committed to Karl Barth’s Church Dogmatics, where theology was consciously developed as an ecclesiological study, not as a science of religion.” (Page 6)
“This means that the foundation for every theological specialization is the general theology of all believers, which corresponds to the Reformation’s thesis about the universal ‘priesthood of all believers’. All Christians who believe and who think about what they believe are theologians, whether they are young or old, women or men.” (Page 11)
“If the future of Scripture is apprehended in the symbol of the kingdom of God, then this becomes the scarlet thread of a biblical theology which does not just read the Old Testament in the light of the New, and the New Testament in the light of the Old, but reads both in the light of God’s coming to his whole creation.” (Pages 127–128)
“The essential nature of the God who determines human history through promises such as these is not timeless eternity; it is his identity in time—his faithfulness.” (Page 55)
- Title: Experiences in Theology: Ways and Forms of Christian Theology
- Author: Jürgen Moltmann
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 2000
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Moltmann, Jürgen; Systematische theologie
- Resource ID: LLS:EXPRTHEOMOLTMANN
- Resource Type: Monograph
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