Jürgen Moltmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 1714696 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jürgen Moltmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jürgen |
| FAMILY NAME | Moltmann |
| SIGNATURE | MOLTMANN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tübingen |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 38 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1968 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Hope of the Earth
As a tribute to the German theologian Jürgen Moltmann, who died on 3 June 2024 in Tübingen, Germany, this issue of The Ecumenical Review is publishing a chapter from his book Hope in These Troubled Times, launched during Moltmann's last visit to the World Council of Churches in 2019. This chapter offers a critique of a theological approach that puts the human being at the centre of the relationship toward nature, an approach that has become quest…
The transformation of theology in the present climate crisis
Humanity is facing an ecological catastrophe. Culprits include a linear understanding of time which looks only to the future and the human belief in progress. This ideology has remained the same in the search for solutions; technological progress must provide the answer. However, the article argued that a green transformation is needed. Ecological justice is required. Not only the rights of humans but also of nature, the earth and animals should …
The Great Ecological Transformation
This article offers a theological rationale for engaging in a great ecological transformation. The author argues that this transformation cannot be achieved solely with technological means. Rather, we need far more than a great industrial transformation. We also need ecological justice that gives the nature of the earth and the animals their rights; recognition that ecological justice is related to social justice and, especially, to the rights of…
Le futur de la théologie
Après avoir précisé la situation de la théologie qui s’élabore au carrefour de l’Église, de la politique et de l’Université, Jürgen Moltmann expose ce qui constitue selon lui les enjeux majeurs auxquels elle doit faire face aujourd’hui. La théologie doit prendre acte de la mort des dieux de mort (race, patrie, capitalisme) et promouvoir le Dieu de la vie. Pour réussir cela, il est indispensable qu’elle soit à la fois écologique, pneumatologique e…
The Spirit of Truth
This article reflects on the theme of the “spirit of truth” in a post‐truth era – a time in which objective truth seems to no longer exist, any given claim can be substantiated, and it is no longer possible to tell falsehood and truth apart. Focusing on the objectivity of science, the humanity of truth, and the spirit of truth revealed by divinity, the article argues for the adoption of a humane and ecological wisdom, seeing it as a way to deal w…
My Friend Johann Baptist Metz
Johann Baptist Metz died on December 2, 2019. He and Jürgen Moltmann shared a theological and personal friendship marked by affection and respect. It was an honest friendship and it lasted for over fifty years. It started when two texts met: Metz’s essay “God before Us” and Moltmann’s essay “The Category of Novum in Christian Theology.” Both were published in the volume To Honor Ernst Bloch (1965). This article is a personal reminiscence
The Spirit of Truth
This article explores the theological notion of truth in our contemporary context
Reconciliation of Nations for the Survival of Humankind
The paper explores the history and the reality of reconciliation of nations, which is inevitable and vital for the survival of human kind. It first emphasizes the very need for the peace and reconciliation through three examples of national reconciliation both internal and external: reconciliation between France and Germany after the continuous war since 1813, reconciliation between Germany and Poland after the World War II, and the reconciliatio…
Personal Recollections of James H. Cone
On the occasion of James H. Cone’s death in April 2018, his long-time colleague Jürgen Moltmann reflects on the many decades of their theological and personal friendship, from their initial meeting in 1970 to their last get-together in 2015. With deep personal gratitude, Moltmann speaks about the counseling role, which Cone assumed for him in the United States context for many years, and shares important moments in their common effort to develop …
Israel, the Church, and Millenarianism
Since the calls of the Second Vatican Council, Roman Catholic theologians have sought to overcome an overarching problem facing Jewish–Christian relations, the concept of "supersessionism"; the idea that God has revoked the spiritual and historical promises made to the Jewish people in favour of granting those same privileges to a predominantly Gentile Church. Israel, the Church, and Millenarianism breaks new ground by applying an ancient princip…
The unfinished Reformation
In this article Jürgen Moltmann offers a clarion call to the whole church at the eve of the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation to be semper reformanda. Moltmann discusses five major points: the theological implications of the contemporary move from a culture of dispute to a culture of dialogue; the unity of the Christian church under what he terms “the papacy of all believers”; the only true “reformation by faith alone” initiated by …
Christianity
The Cambridge Companion to Christian Political Theology
Interest in political theology has surged in recent years, and this accessible volume provides a focused overview of the field. Many are asking serious questions about religious faith in secular societies, the origin and function of democratic polities, worldwide economic challenges, the shift of Christianity's center of gravity to the global south, and anxieties related to bold and even violent assertions of theologically determined political id…
Joy and Human Flourishing
Personal recollections of Wolfhart Pannenberg
On the occasion of Wolfhart Pannenberg’s death in September 2014, Prof. Jürgen Moltmann reflects on how his own professional and personal life intersected over the last six decades with that of his former colleague, from their first meeting as students at the University of Göttingen to their time as colleagues at the Kirchliche Hochschule Wuppertal all the way to their regular meetings between Tübingen and Munich as professors emeriti. Prof. Molt…
Sun of Righteousness, Arise! The Freedom of a Christian—Then and Now—for the Perpetrators and for the Victims of Sin
The following is a lecture, which Prof. Dr. Jürgen Moltmann gave for the Reformation Day Celebration at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. It has an ecumenical direction, beginning with Martin Luther and ending with Charles Wesley’s verse “Sun of Righteousness, Arise!” The lecture moves from Martin Luther in the sixteenth century and his treatise on “The Freedom of a Christian” to Martin Luther King Jr. in the twentieth century, and the inscript…
Is the world unfinished? On interactions between science and theology in the concepts of nature, time and the future
This paper is the text of Professor Moltmann's 2011 Boyle lecture. In it he explores interactions between theology and the sciences. It proceeds from the Cappadocian insight that the world is 'readable' both in 'the Book of Books' and in the 'book of nature'. The empirical concept of nature corresponds to the theological concept of creation, between which there is no contradiction. This leads to a reflection on the nature of time, and in particul…
Do you understand what you are reading
The paper published here is the full text of the Charles Moule Lecture given at Ridley Hall, Cambridge on 10 June 2009. In the spirit of entering into a colloquium with the theological legacy of C. F. D. Moule, the paper asks the question: 'What do New Testament scholars have to say to the theologians, and what do theologians have to say to the New Testament scholars when they read the Scriptures together?' It concludes that, though in the past c…
A Ideia de Uma Universidade Cristã
No mundo moderno, as universidades em todos os lugares se encontram em crise: na crise de sua identidade e nas crises de seu sentido e de suas funções na sociedade – assim se diz. Olhando melhor, percebem-se conflitos de interesses que têm as universidades como alvo e comprometem sua liberdade de pesquisa e ensino. A liberdade da universidade consiste em ser um espaço livre de dominação para pesquisa e para a procura da verdade. A scientific comm…
Control is Good–Trust is Better
“Trust is good, control is better,” said Lenin and those who want the total surveillance state. But who controls the controllers? This ancient question is unanswered. No control works without trust. After looking into different levels of trust from psychology to politics, we ask about trust in God. Only a God who bears the sins and sufferings of the world is trustworthy. Can trust be restored when it is broken? Repentance, confession of guilt, ch…
The Hope for the Kingdom of God and Signs of Hope in the World
Science and Wisdom
The ancient root of wisdom is the fear of the Lord, and the root of knowledge is astonishment. For the modern world, knowledge is power, and wisdom has gone lost. We seem to have no moral power over our scientific and technological power. This article discusses Einstein's dilemma concerning nuclear power and the Fritz Haber tragedy of the poison-gas dilemma. The future of humankind belongs not to the increase of sciences but to the rediscovery of…
Progreso y precipicio. Recuerdos del futuro del mundo moderno
A diferencia de un cómputo abstracto del tiempo, las consideraciones sobre lo que ha sucedido a lo largo del tiempo nos conduce a la historia real. En este segundo sentido, el año 2000 representa la herencia de una época, que nació del espíritu de esperanza mesiánica: con el descubrimiento y la conquista de América y con la evolución de la ciencia y la tecnología, Europa se creyó la soberana eterna del mundo. El siglo XIX fue el siglo del mito de…
Child and Childhood as Metaphors of Hope
Henriette Visser 'T Hooft and Karl Barth
The Crucified God
“The God of success and the apathetic man of action completely contradict what we find at the core of Christianity: The suffering God and the loving, vulnerable man. On the other hand, the crucified God contradicts the God of success and his idol-worshippers all the more totally. He contradicts the officially optimistic society. He also contradicts the revolutionary activism of the sons of the old establishment. ‘The old rugged cross’ contradicts…
Religion and State in Germany
The relationship between church and state in Germany is conditioned by the centuries-long history of state Christianity and also by the struggle for the independence of the churches over against the state. The churches won their critical power against the state's power in their opposition to Hitler's dictatorship and the totalitarian Weltanschauung of national socialism. Since the division of the two German states in 1961, a church in socialism h…
Child and Childhood as Metaphors of Hope
Hope and History
“If one hopes for the sake of Christ in the future of God and the ultimate liberation of the world, he cannot passively wait for this future, and, like the apocalyptic believers, withdraw from the world. Rather he must seek this future, strive for it, and already here be in correspondence to it in the active renewal of life and of the conditions of life, and therefore realize it already here according to the measure of possibilities. Because this…
Teresa of Avila and Martin Luther
Political Theology
“Political theology is therefore not simply political ethics but reaches further by asking about the political consciousness of theology itself. It does not want to make political questions the central theme of theology or to give political systems and movements religious support. Rather, political theology designates the field, the milieu, the environment, and the medium in which Christian theology should be articulated today.”
Resurrection as Hope
The Resurrection of Christ: Traditional Questions The “Resurrection of Christ” is controversial. It does not fit into the modern world of things calculable and manipulable. Is it a historical event among other historical events that took place or that are still taking place? Is it a symbol of the language of times past
Hope and History
“If one hopes for the sake of Christ in the future of God and the ultimate liberation of the world, he cannot passively wait for this future, and, like the apocalyptic believers, withdraw from the world. Rather he must seek this future, strive for it, and already here be in correspondence to it in the active renewal of life and of the conditions of life, and therefore realize it already here according to the measure of possibilities. Because this…
Political Theology
“Political theology is therefore not simply political ethics but reaches further by asking about the political consciousness of theology itself. It does not want to make political questions the central theme of theology or to give political systems and movements religious support. Rather, political theology designates the field, the milieu, the environment, and the medium in which Christian theology should be articulated today.”
The Crucified God
“The God of success and the apathetic man of action completely contradict what we find at the core of Christianity: The suffering God and the loving, vulnerable man. On the other hand, the crucified God contradicts the God of success and his idol-worshippers all the more totally. He contradicts the officially optimistic society. He also contradicts the revolutionary activism of the sons of the old establishment. ‘The old rugged cross’ contradicts…
The Trinitarian History of God
Théologie de l'expérience mystique
Moltmann Jürgen, Wolff Robert. Théologie de l'expérience mystique. In: Revue d'histoire et de philosophie religieuses, 59e année n°1,1979. pp. 1-18
Teresa of Avila and Martin Luther
The Expectation of His Coming
Religion and State in Germany
The relationship between church and state in Germany is conditioned by the centuries-long history of state Christianity and also by the struggle for the independence of the churches over against the state. The churches won their critical power against the state's power in their opposition to Hitler's dictatorship and the totalitarian Weltanschauung of national socialism. Since the division of the two German states in 1961, a church in socialism h…
Die politische Diakonie der Kirche
Die politische Diakonie der Kirche
Die moderne Gesellschaft und die Zukunft / La société moderne et l'avenir
Jürgen Moltmann : Modern society and the future. Modern society is in the process of ruining its own future. The fear of «no future» has genuine causes : it is the result of widespread unemployment, the system of nuclear deterrents, and the ecological crisis. Justice can alone lead to peace and open up a future to the members of the community, to the human community in its successive generations, to the generations of humanity in its natural envi…
Christianity in the Third Millennium
Jesus Between Jews and Christians
This article was originally published as “Jesus zwischen Juden und Christen,” Evangelische Theologie 1 (1995): 49-63. Translated by Scott Kline, McGill University. With permission
El Espíritu Santo y la teología de la vida
El don y el presente del Espíritu de Dios son Dios mismo, que llama a nuestra vida a la plenitud desde su raíz. Desde una perspectiva bíblica, el Espíritu Santo es la donación que Dios nos hace. El origen de esta donación está en el rostro resplandeciente de Dios. Su finalidad en el Nuevo Testamento es culminar el único acontecimiento salvífico de Cristo. Cristo nos envía su Espíritu en virtud de su Cruz, criterio del discernimiento de los espíri…
Henriette Visser 'T Hooft and Karl Barth
Progreso y precipicio. Recuerdos del futuro del mundo moderno
A diferencia de un cómputo abstracto del tiempo, las consideraciones sobre lo que ha sucedido a lo largo del tiempo nos conduce a la historia real. En este segundo sentido, el año 2000 representa la herencia de una época, que nació del espíritu de esperanza mesiánica: con el descubrimiento y la conquista de América y con la evolución de la ciencia y la tecnología, Europa se creyó la soberana eterna del mundo. El siglo XIX fue el siglo del mito de…
Child and Childhood as Metaphors of Hope
Science and Wisdom
The ancient root of wisdom is the fear of the Lord, and the root of knowledge is astonishment. For the modern world, knowledge is power, and wisdom has gone lost. We seem to have no moral power over our scientific and technological power. This article discusses Einstein's dilemma concerning nuclear power and the Fritz Haber tragedy of the poison-gas dilemma. The future of humankind belongs not to the increase of sciences but to the rediscovery of…
The Hope for the Kingdom of God and Signs of Hope in the World
Control is Good–Trust is Better
“Trust is good, control is better,” said Lenin and those who want the total surveillance state. But who controls the controllers? This ancient question is unanswered. No control works without trust. After looking into different levels of trust from psychology to politics, we ask about trust in God. Only a God who bears the sins and sufferings of the world is trustworthy. Can trust be restored when it is broken? Repentance, confession of guilt, ch…
A Ideia de Uma Universidade Cristã
No mundo moderno, as universidades em todos os lugares se encontram em crise: na crise de sua identidade e nas crises de seu sentido e de suas funções na sociedade – assim se diz. Olhando melhor, percebem-se conflitos de interesses que têm as universidades como alvo e comprometem sua liberdade de pesquisa e ensino. A liberdade da universidade consiste em ser um espaço livre de dominação para pesquisa e para a procura da verdade. A scientific comm…
Do you understand what you are reading
The paper published here is the full text of the Charles Moule Lecture given at Ridley Hall, Cambridge on 10 June 2009. In the spirit of entering into a colloquium with the theological legacy of C. F. D. Moule, the paper asks the question: 'What do New Testament scholars have to say to the theologians, and what do theologians have to say to the New Testament scholars when they read the Scriptures together?' It concludes that, though in the past c…
Is the world unfinished? On interactions between science and theology in the concepts of nature, time and the future
This paper is the text of Professor Moltmann's 2011 Boyle lecture. In it he explores interactions between theology and the sciences. It proceeds from the Cappadocian insight that the world is 'readable' both in 'the Book of Books' and in the 'book of nature'. The empirical concept of nature corresponds to the theological concept of creation, between which there is no contradiction. This leads to a reflection on the nature of time, and in particul…
Sun of Righteousness, Arise! The Freedom of a Christian—Then and Now—for the Perpetrators and for the Victims of Sin
The following is a lecture, which Prof. Dr. Jürgen Moltmann gave for the Reformation Day Celebration at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. It has an ecumenical direction, beginning with Martin Luther and ending with Charles Wesley’s verse “Sun of Righteousness, Arise!” The lecture moves from Martin Luther in the sixteenth century and his treatise on “The Freedom of a Christian” to Martin Luther King Jr. in the twentieth century, and the inscript…
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