God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God

by Jürgen Moltmann

Publisher:

Fortress Press

, 1993

Overview

Jürgen Moltmann implores readers to stop distinguishing between God and the world, and to stop surrendering the world to scientific “disenchantment” and technical exploitation by human beings. He asks them to instead discover God in creation and find God’s life-giving Spirit in the community of creation. This view—which has also been called panentheistic (in contrast to pantheistic)—requires us to offer reverence for the life of every living thing into the adoration of God. And this means expanding the worship and service of God to include service for God's creation.

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Key Features

• Discusses God and His Spirit in creation
• Suggests readers stop distinguishing between God and the world
• Seeks to expand worship and service to God to include service for God’s creation

Contents

• God in Creation
• In the Ecological Crisis
• The Knowledge of Creation
• God the Creator
• The Time of Creation
• The Space of Creation
• Heaven and Earth
• The Evolution of Creation
• God’s Image in Creation: Human Beings
• ‘Embodiment is the End of All God’s Works’
• The Sabbath: The Feast of Creation

Product Details

• Title: God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God
• Author: Jürgen Moltmann
• Translator: Margaret Kohl
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication Date: 1993
• Pages: 368
• Christian Group: Reformed
• Resource Type: Systematic Theologies
• Topic: Doctrine of Creation

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

“By the title ‘God in Creation’ I mean God the Holy Spirit. God is ‘the lover of life’ and his Spirit is in all created beings.” (Page xiv)

“When this happens, of course, the concern that motivates cognition changes. We no longer desire to know in order to dominate, or analyse and reduce in order to reconstruct. Our purpose is now to perceive in order to participate, and to enter into the mutual relationships of the living thing.” (Page 3)

“The New Testament testimony about creation is to be found in the resurrection kerygma and in the experience of the Holy Spirit, who is the energy of the new creation. Eschatological christology and pneumatology does in fact involve a fundamentally new interpretation of the divine creative activity.” (Page 65)

“The Christ dying in physical torment on the cross identifies himself with the sick, the tormented, and those who die in torment. That is why they are able to find in him the healing which is fellowship with God, the wellspring of eternal life.” (Page 246)

“It is the affirmative force of God’s self-negation which becomes the creative force in creation and salvation.” (Page 87)

Product Details

• Title: God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God
• Author: Jürgen Moltmann
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Print Publication Date: 1993
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Era: era:Contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Creation; God (Christianity); Nature › Religious aspects--Christianity; Human ecology › Religious aspects--Christianity
• Resource ID: LLS:GDCREAMOLTMANN
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T03:25:58Z

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.