Jesus Christ for Today’s World

by Jürgen Moltmann

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 1994

Overview

Jürgen Moltmann formulates necessary questions about the significance of Jesus the Christ for persons today. He offers a compelling portrait of the earthly Jesus as the divine brother in our distress and suffering and points to the risen Christ as the warrant for the “future in which God will restore everything . . . and gather everything into his kingdom.” Urging that acknowledgment of Christ and discipleship are two sides of the same coin, Moltmann contends that the question of Jesus Christ for today is not just an intellectual one. Moltmann takes fresh approaches to a number of crucial topics: Jesus and the kingdom of God, the passion of Christ and the pain of God, Jesus as brother of the tortured, and the resurrection of Christ as hope for the world, the cosmic Christ, Jesus in Jewish- Christian dialogue, the future of God, and others.

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Key Features

• Presents a compelling portrait of the earthly Jesus and risen Christ
• Discusses the signficance of Jesus the Christ for persons today
• Approaches a number of crucial topics related to Jesus Christ

Contents

• Jesus and the Kingdom of God
• The Passion of Christ and the Pain of God
• The Anxiety of Christ
• The Tortured Christ
• The Resurrection of Christ–Hope for the World
• The Cosmic Christ
• Jesus between Jews and Christians
• ‘Behold I Make All Things New’: The Great Invitation

Product Details

• Title: Jesus Christ for Today’s World
• Author: Jürgen Moltmann
• Translator: Margaret Kohl
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Pages: 152
• Christian Group: Reformed
• Resource Type: Systematic Theologies
• Topic: Jesus Studies

About Jürgen Moltmann

Jürgen Moltmann studied Christian theology in England and, after his return to Germany, in Göttingen. He served as a pastor from 1952 to1958 in Bremen. Since 1967 he has been Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen and retired there in 1994. Among his many influential and award-winning books are The Theology of Hope (1967), The Crucified God (1974), The Trinity and the Kingdom (1981), The Spirit of Life (1994), and The Coming of God (1996), winner of the Grawemeyer Award in 2000, all published by Fortress Press.

Contents

Top Highlights

“Continuous creation is already at the same time the anticipation of the new creation of all things. Continuous creation is creation’s ongoing history. In this ‘historical’ creation God ‘renews the face of the earth’ (Ps. 104:30), looking towards the final new creation of all things. He creates justice for those who have never known justice. He raises up the humble and obscure. He fulfils his promises in historical experiences.” (Page 98)

“So if we look at these parables, what is the kingdom of God? It is nothing other than God’s joy at finding again the beings he created who have been lost. And what is the ‘repentance’ which the sinner has to ‘perform’? It is nothing other than the being-found, and the return home from exile and estrangement, the coming-alive again, and the joining in God’s joy.” (Page 12)

“The new creation is not a different creation. It is the new creation of this deranged world. Eternal life is not a different life. It is the resurrection of this life into the life of God.” (Page 22)

“Life begins at every moment when we are moved by the Spirit. Through rebirth from the Holy Spirit our transitory life becomes eternal life.” (Page 137)

“Jesus provided us with no old or new ‘concept’ of the kingdom of God at all. He brought God’s kingdom himself. That is something very different. It is one thing to define the proper concepts about life, and quite another to live rightly. It is one thing to learn a concept of happiness, and another to be happy. And so it is one thing to reduce the kingdom of God to a definition, and another to experience it, to feel it, to see it and to taste it. It is not the term which must be allowed to define the experience. The experience must define the term. Otherwise we could be prevented by a plethora of sheer concepts from having any new experiences at all.” (Page 9)

Product Details

• Title: Jesus Christ for Today’s World
• Author: Jürgen Moltmann
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 1994
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Jesus Christ › Person and offices
• Resource ID: LLS:JC2DAYWLDMOLTMANN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T04:04:44Z

About Jürgen Moltmann

Jürgen Moltmann is a German Reformed theologian. He is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the University of Tübingen and the 2000 recipient of the Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion. He studied Christian theology in England and in Göttingen, and served as a pastor from 1952 to 1958 in Bremen. Among his many influential and award-winning books are The Theology of Hope, The Crucified God, The Trinity and the Kingdom, The Spirit of Life, and The Coming of God.