The Passion for Life: A Messianic Lifestyle
Overview
Jürgen Moltmann presents a theology from the perspective of a layperson in the congregation and addresses the question as to whether a Christian congregation can be formed in a post-industrial society. Making a persuasive case that the most crucial thing that today’s churches need is passion, he looks deep into the heart of the church and examines what it would take to regain that passion.
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Key Features
- Presents a theology from the perspective of a layperson
- Questions whether a Christian congregation can be formed in a post-industrial society
- Explores the crucial role of passion in today’s churches
Contents
- The Passion for Life
- The Community with Others
- Messianic Lifestyle
- Open Friendship
- The Feast of Freedom
- The Passion for Life
- The Ecumenical Church under the Cross
- Hope in the Struggle of the People
- The Congregation “From Below”
Praise for the Print Edition
This is the kind of book that every theologian in every generation should be invited to write. . . . For someone who has not yet read any of Moltmann’s work, this book would be a palpable way in which to begin. For a pastor or lay person who has read widely in Moltmann's corpus, this would be a worthy rehearsal of dominant themes. For the theological specialist who has read everything of Moltmann in both German and English, The Passion for Life would constitute a gentle reminder that theology exists for the sake of the congregation.
—Foundations
This book advocates a style of life for the Christian community that is properly communal, and also ‘theological’ in that it brings together action and reflection. Moltmann argues his right to speak as a member of ‘the people’ on the basis not of his place in the church but of his experience as an anonymous prisoner toward the end of World War II.
—Anglican Theological Review
Product Details
- Title: The Passion for Life: A Messianic Lifestyle
- Author: Jürgen Moltmann
- Translator: M. Douglas Meeks
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Publication Date: 1978
- Pages: 128
- Christian Group: Reformed
- Resource Type: Systematic Theologies
- Topic: Christianity
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
“A life which is worthy of the gospel, however, liberates us to be ourselves and fills us with the powers of the Spirit. We are enabled to give ourselves up and trust ourselves to the leading of the Spirit. Then we are able to accept ourselves just as we are, with our possibilities and limitations, and thereby gain a new spontaneity. We are freed to live with God in the covenant of freedom. The life worthy of the gospel also has its discipline, but it is the discipline of love and joy, not the discipline of anxiety under the threat of the law.” (Page 38)
“To give up one’s life means to go outside oneself, to love, to expose oneself, and to spend oneself. In this passionate renunciation one’s whole life becomes alive because it makes other life alive.” (Page 26)
“Out of the dark corners of society into which we have condemned them they come into the limelight because they noticed the light, the life that Jesus spreads around himself through his guiding passion, through his love. In Jesus’ passion for life the passion of God himself comes into view. That passion yearns for life and hates death; it desires freedom and hates slavery; it is love and knows no apathy.” (Page 24)
“He abolished the separation between the cultic and the profane, the pure and the impure, sabbath and everyday. He did this however, not in favor of everyday secularity but in favor of the messianic festiveness of the whole of life. If his mission is messianic, then with him the sabbath of the end-time also is beginning. The whole of life becomes a feast.” (Page 77)
- Title: The Passion for Life: A Messianic Lifestyle
- Author: Jürgen Moltmann
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 1978
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Church; Christian life
- Resource ID: LLS:PASSLFMOLTMANN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T05:00:40Z