Research Catalog

Title

The kingdom and the power : the theology of Jürgen Moltmann / Geiko Müller-Fahrenholz.

Author

Müller-Fahrenholz, Geiko.

Publication

London : SCM Press, 2000.

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Details

Description

262 pages; 22 cm

Uniform Title

Phantasie für das Reich Gottes. English

Alternative Title

Phantasie für das Reich Gottes.

Subject

• Moltmann, Jürgen
• 1900-1999
• Theology, Doctrinal > History > 20th century
• Theology, Doctrinal

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• 1. In the prison camp: Liberation -- A success story? -- 'Operation Gomorrah' -- The quest for God begins near to death -- The Bible boy: conversion to and with the Bible -- Friendship in a foreign land -- After Auschwitz: only the suffering God can help -- Imprisoned yet free -- 2. Community against the horizon of the rule of Christ -- The context: steps towards independence -- The focus of the programme: the horizon of the rule of Christ -- A programmatic writing without an echo -- 3. Hope, or in the undertow of the kingdom -- Bonn, 1964 -- Theology of hope: the most important arguments -- (1) Bloch's Principle of hope baptized? -- (b) Theology of hope: basic content -- A retrospect -- 4. Everything is decided by the cross -- El Dios Crucificado -- The crucified God -- (a) Who is God on the cross of the Godforsaken One? -- (b) Who is this man? -- (c) The cross -- the suffering God -- (d) Following the Crucified One -- the compassionate -- Summary: the programmatic element in The crucified God -- 5. In the fellowship of the Spirit of God -- Convergences -- (a) The trinitarian dynamic -- (b) The 'oppressed Christians throughout the world' -- (c) The messianic Spirit of God in a time of uncertainty -- The church in the power of the Spirit -- a sketch of the content -- (a) 'The church of Jesus Christ' -- (b) 'The church of the kingdom of God' -- (c) 'The church as a community of messianic service to the kingdom of God' -- Unclear signals? Notes on a programmatic writing which is not one -- (a) Comparisons with 'The community against the horizon of the rule of Christ' -- (b) Universalism and the church -- (c) Church and community -- (d) Ecclesiology and ethics -- 6. On being a Christian -- The Messianic fragment -- Introduction: Why there is no 'ethic' -- The passion for the kingdom -- ethical approaches -- Friendship in a messianic light -- The quest for the subject: community -- people -- humankind -- Fragment as chance.
• 7. Liberation theology for the First World? -- The 1977 turning point -- Where is nowhere? -- Liberation theology for the First World -- (a) The first step: separation -- (b) The second step: identity -- (c) The third step: integration -- 8. On unification -- the theology of the Trinity as a retelling of God's history of love -- Convergences -- (a) 'Unification of God' -- an argument for trinitarian thinking from Jewish belief in God -- (b) The Abba mystery -- Developments -- (a) God's passion narrative -- (b) The salvation of the world in the passion of God -- (c) Perichoresis and movement -- The practical relevance of trinitarian thinking -- Is trinitarian thinking a form of mysticism? -- 9. Creation: The wonder of existence -- Creation as indwelling -- The crown of creation: God's sabbath -- Human beings as the image of the Trinity -- The partners and the opponents -- For a habitable world -- 10. Under way on the way of the Messiah -- The messianic -- The 'way' of Jesus Christ -- A 'postmodern' christology -- In conclusion: two impressions of a reader -- 11. The superabundance of the power of God -- God's ruach -- creative power and power of life -- Experience -- the medium of ruach -- Living in the Spirit -- the dynamic of grace -- (a) Liberation -- (b) Justification -- (c) Rebirth -- (d) Sanctification -- (e) Charismatic power -- The Holy Spirit as person -- 12. What remains is expectation: The coming of God -- 'He who comes' -- time in the advent of God -- What will become of me? -- (a) Resurrection of the flesh -- (b) Death and sin -- (c) Where are the dead? -- Time itself becomes different -- When God is all in all -- the restoration of all things -- Soli Deo gloria -- in the realm of glory -- 13. Contemporary and comrade of the kingdom -- The contemporary -- The comrade of the kingdom -- Comrade and friend -- Comradely theology -- 14. Discovering the inviting mystery -- Messianism and mysticism in Moltmann's theology -- The central theme: history in the advent of God -- World history as 'anonymous' kingdom of God history? -- A speculative theology? -- Talking about God is talking to God -- The mystical ground of theology -- Kingdom of God -- kingdom of freedom -- A selection bibliography of the works of Jürgen Moltmann.

ISBN

• 0334028019
• 9780334028017

LCCN

2001334833

OCLC

• ocm45206173
• 45206173
• SCSB-1131093

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library