The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology Moltmann Jurgen Paperback
The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology Moltmann Jurgen Paperback Winner of Grawemeyer Award In this remarkable and timely work - in many ways the culmination of his systematic theology -…
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The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology Moltmann Jurgen Paperback
Winner of Grawemeyer Award In this remarkable and timely work - in many ways the culmination of his systematic theology - world-renowned theologian Jurgen Moltmann stands Christian eschatology on its head. He centers instead on hope and God's promise of new creation for all things. Moltmann rejects the traditional approach, which focuses on the End, an apocalyptic finale, as a kind of Christian search for the final solution.
Yet Moltmann's novel framework, deeply informed by Jewish and messianic thought, also fosters rich and creative insights into the perennially nettling questions of eschatology: Are there eternal life and personal identity after death? Christian eschatology, he says, is the remembered hope of the raising of the crucified Christ, so it talks about beginning afresh in the deadly end. How is one to think of heaven, hell, and purgatory?
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