Jurgen Moltmann
Jurgen Moltmann
Jürgen Moltmannis a German Reformed theologian who is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen. Moltmann is a major figure in modern theology and was the recipient of the 2000 University of Louisville and Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary Grawemeyer Award in Religion, and was also selected to deliver the prestigious Gifford Lectures in 1984–85. He has made significant contributions to a number of areas of Christian theology, including systematic theology, eschatology, ecclesiology, political theology, Christology, pneumatology, and...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth8 April 1926
CountryGermany
Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.
A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else.
It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God.
Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past.
. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.
Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.
As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.
There are various names for this 'Spirit of Life' because there are various life experiences.
The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.
The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.
No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in the Revelation of John.
The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty
God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship.
The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it meant knowing in wonder. By knowing or perceiving one participates in the life of the other. Here knowing does not transform the counterpart into the property of the knower; the knower does not appropriate what he knows. On the contrary, he is transformed through sympathy, becoming a participant in what he perceives.