In the End -- The Beginning
The Life of Hope
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In the End -- The Beginning: The Life of Hope
''In my end is my beginning,'' wrote T. S. Eliot, and Jürgen Moltmann's new book is a powerful testament to personal hope in chaotic, even catastrophic times.
As Moltmann's award-winning volume The Coming of God laid out the systematic framework of eschatology (the doctrine of the ''last things''), so here he explores the personal meaning of that fundamental affirmation for Christians. Debunking the classic images of Christian apocalyptic scenarios, the final struggle between God and Satan, Christ and the Antichrist—Armageddon—Moltmann instead shows that Christian expectation of the future has nothing to do with these but everything to do with new beginnings and a horizon of hope. Three parts explore three particular beginnings: birth (childhood and youth), rebirth (failures and defeats), and resurrection (death, judgment, afterlife).
This brief volume promises to be one of Moltmann's most personal and compelling books.
As Moltmann's award-winning volume The Coming of God laid out the systematic framework of eschatology (the doctrine of the ''last things''), so here he explores the personal meaning of that fundamental affirmation for Christians. Debunking the classic images of Christian apocalyptic scenarios, the final struggle between God and Satan, Christ and the Antichrist—Armageddon—Moltmann instead shows that Christian expectation of the future has nothing to do with these but everything to do with new beginnings and a horizon of hope. Three parts explore three particular beginnings: birth (childhood and youth), rebirth (failures and defeats), and resurrection (death, judgment, afterlife).
This brief volume promises to be one of Moltmann's most personal and compelling books.
- Publisher Fortress Press
- Format Paperback
- ISBN 9780800636562
- Dimensions 5.5 x 8.5
- Pages 192
- Publication Date May 5, 2004
Endorsements
"In our time, beset by end-of-history threats of fanatical apocalyptic terrorism and by progressive everyday terrorism that millions suffer through globalization, Moltmann here uncovers the grace-filled beginnings of peace and the love of life that God is already making present to us and the whole creation."
— M. Douglas Meeks, Vanderbilt Divinity School
Table of Contents
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Introduction
PART ONE: THERE IS A MAGIC IN EVERY BEGINNING
I The Promise of the Child
The Mystery of the Child: Some Perspectives
The Messianic Child
Jesus and Children: The Revaluation of Values
Hope Which Shines Out Everyone in Childhood
II Does the Future Belong to the Young?
The Modern Discovery of Youth
The German 'Wandervogel' Youth Movement
The Hitler Youth
Consumer Children
The Future Makes Us Young
PART TWO: IN MY END IS MY BEGINNING
III New Beginnings in Catastrophes: Biblical Catastrophe Theology
Personal Experiences
The Flood and the Covenant with Noah: An Archetypal Image of the End of the World
Israel's Catastrophe and the Beginning of Judaism
The Golgotha Catastrophe and the Beginning of Christianity
Catastrophes of the Modern World: An End without a Beginning?
IV Deliver Us from Evil: God's Righteousness and Justice and the Rebirth of Life
Critical Reservations about the Traditional Theological Interpretations of the Doctrine of Justification
The Cry for Justice
God Is Just when He Brings about Justice
Jesus Christ — God's Righteousness and Justice in the World of Victims and Perpetrators
The Resurrection of Christ with the Victims and Perpetrators of Evil
The Right of Inheritance of God's Children
The Justification of God
V The Spirituality of the Wakeful Senses
'Could You Not Watch with Me One Hour?'
Spiritual Paralyses Today
Praying and Awakening
'Watchman, What of the Night?'
VI The Living Power of Hope
The Reasonableness of Hope
The Sin of Despair
PART THREE: O BEGINNING WITHOUT ENDING...
VII Is There a Life after Death?
Is Death the Finish?
What Is Left of Life? Are We Mortal or Immortal?
Where Are the Dead?
The Future of the Life Cut Short and Spoiled
VIII Mourning and Consoling
Experiences of Life and Death Today
Only Love Can Mourn
Mourning and Melancholia: A Discussion with Sigmund Freud
Consolation and the Rebirth to Life
IX The Community of the Living and the Dead
The Ancestor Cult
Hope for Those Who Have Gone Before
Prayers for the Dead?
The Culture of Remembrance
X What Awaits Us?
What Awaits Us at the Last Judgement?
Does Hell Threaten?
Is There Salvation for the Dead?
'The Restoration of All Things'
XI Eternal Life
What Are We Asking About?
How Can Human Life Become Eternal?
The Time of Eternal Life
The Place of Eternal Life
Will the Life We Have Lived Be Preserved in Eternal Life?
What Can We Know about Eternal Life?
Notes
Earlier Publications Relating to the Subjects Treated Here
Index