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Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology

Theology of Hope

On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology

Jürgen Moltmann (Author)

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"The following efforts bear the title Theology of Hope, not because they set out once again to present eschatology as a separate doctrine and to compete with the well known textbooks. Rather, their aim is to show how theology can set out from hope and begin to consider its theme in an eschatological light. For this reason they inquire into the ground of the hope of Christian faith and into the responsible exercise of this hope in thought and action in the world today. The various critical discussions should not be understood as rejections and condemnations. They are necessary conversations on a common subject which is so rich that it demands continual new approaches."
  • Publisher Fortress Press
  • Format Paperback
  • ISBN 9780800628246
  • Dimensions 5.5 x 8.44
  • Pages 352
  • Publication Date September 1, 1993

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"A stimulating and important book, a 'must' for every theological student and every preacher who wishes to become acquainted with the most significant movement in contemporary continental theology."
— Langdon Gilkey, The Christian Century

Table of Contents

    Preface to the New Paperback Edition
    Preface
    Abbreviation

    INTRODUCTION: MEDITATION ON HOPE
    What is the 'Logos' of Christian Eschatology?
    The Believing Hope
    The Sin of Despair
    Does Hope Cheat Man of the Happiness of the Present?
    Hoping and Thinking

  1. ESCHATOLOGY AND REVELATION
    The Discovery of Eschatology and its Ineffectiveness
    Promise and Revelation of God
    Transcendental Eschatology
    The Theology of the Transcendental Subjectivity of God
    The Theology of the Transcendental Subjectivity of Man
    'Progressive Revelation' and the Eschatology of Salvation History
    'History' as Indirect Self-revelation of God
    The Eschatology of Revelation

  2. PROMISE AND HISTORY
    Epiphany Religions and Faith in Terms of Promise
    The Word of Promise
    The Experience of History
    Revelation and Knowledge of God
    Promise and Law
    Promise in the Eschatology of the Prophets
    The Historifying of the Cosmos in Apocalyptic Eschatology

  3. THE RESURRECTION AND THE FUTURE OF JESUS CHRIST
    Gospel and Promise
    The God of the Promise
    Paul and Abraham
    Fulfilment Ecstasy in Primitive Christianity and the eschatologia crucis
    The 'Death of God' and the Resurrection of Christ
    The Historical Question of the Resurrection of Christ and the Questionableness of the Historical Approach to History
    The Approach of form-Criticism to the Easter Narratives and the Questionableness of its Existentialist Interpretation
    The Eschatological Question as to the Future Horizon of the Proclaiming of the Risen Lord
    The Identity of the Lord who Appears as risen with the Crucified Christ
    The Future of Jesus Christ
    the Future of Righteousness
    The Future of LIfe
    The Future of the Kingdom of God and of the Freedom of Man
    Summary and Review

  4. ESCHATOLOGY AND HISTORY
    Criticism and Crisis
    The 'Solved Riddle of History':
    The Historical Method
    Historical Heuristics
    Historiology
    Eschatology of History—Philosophic Millenarianism
    Death and Guilt as Driving Forces of the Historical Outlook
    The Peculiarity of the Historian's Universal Concepts
    The Hermeneutics of Christian Mission
    The Proofs of God and Hermeneutics
    Mission and Exposition

  5. EXODUS CHURCH
    Observations on the Eschatological Understanding of Christianity in Modern Society
    Modern Society and the Cult of the Absolute
    Religion as the Cult of the New Subjectivity
    Religion as the Cult of Co-humanity
    Religion as the Cult of the Institution
    Christianity within the Horizon of the Expectation of the Kingdom of God
    The Calling of Christians in Society

    Index of Names
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