The Source of Life: The Holy Spirit and the Theology of Life
Overview
Directly, simply, and forcefully, Jürgen Moltmann presents his reflections on the Spirit and the spiritual life that were the essence of his prior book, The Spirit of Life. In this short, accessible work, he combines a deep personal faith with admirable learning and experience.
Moltmann views the Holy Spirit as the power of new life, which enlivens body and soul, spirit and mind. In the Holy Spirit we experience the presence of God, community among people, as well as between humans and all created living things on earth.
Beginning with his experiences as a prisoner of war, Moltmann anchors his reflections in a theology of life—and the Spirit as renewer of life—which ties biblical perspectives to contemporary manifestations, hope to holiness, creation to community, and spirituality to prayer. Moltmann at his best, this little theology stimulates the experience of the Holy Spirit in one's own life.
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Key Features
- Combines a deep personal faith with learning and experience
- Ties biblical perspectives to contemporary manifestations
- Stimulates the experience of the Holy Spirit in one’s own life
Contents
- Wrestling with God
- The Holy Spirit and the Theology of Life
- Born Again to a Living Hope
- A Meditation on Hope
- The Sanctification of Life
- Charismatic Powers of Life
- Life’s New Spirituality
- In the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit
- There is Enough for Everyone
- ‘. . . And Thou Renewest the Face of the Earth’
- What Are We Doing When We Pray?
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: The Source of Life: The Holy Spirit and the Theology of Life
- Author: Jürgen Moltmann
- Translator: Margaret Kohl
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Publication Date: 1997
- Pages: 160
- 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
“Between Christ the recipient of the Spirit and Christ the sender of the Spirit stands God the Father, as the Holy Spirit’s eternal origin. The Holy Spirit does not ‘proceed from the Father and the Son’, as the Western church’s Nicene Creed maintains. The Spirit proceeds from the Father, rests on the Son, and from the Son radiates into the world.” (Page 17)
“But the creatively active God does not find rest anywhere except in the new heaven and the new earth where his righteousness and justice rules. God sanctifies his whole community of creation through his indwelling. It is intended to become God’s environment and to participate eternally in his divine life.” (Page 47)
“The image of ‘the wellspring of life’, and the water which gives life to everything that is parched and dried up, is used as a way of explaining the effect of the Holy Spirit. As ‘the water of life’, the Spirit makes what is dying and withered living and fertile.” (Page 12)
“God’s mission is nothing less than the sending of the Holy Spirit from the Father through the Son into this world, so that this world should not perish but live.” (Page 19)
“In the context of sickness the kingdom of God means healing; in the context of death the kingdom means resurrection and eternal life.” (Page 65)
- Title: The Source of Life: The Holy Spirit and the Theology of Life
- Author: Jürgen Moltmann
- Publisher: Fortress Press
- Print Publication Date: 1997
- Logos Release Date: 2013
- Era: era:Contemporary
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Holy Spirit; Life
- Resource ID: LLS:SRCLFMOLTMANN
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T06:08:04Z