I am busy reading some Jurgen Moltmann for the upcoming theological conversation in a couple weeks and thought I would share a bit along the way. Feel free to let me know your thoughts and questions so I can use them when I have a little dialogue with Moltmann. In particular I am interested in any issues his thought raises for the life of the church. Clearly his theology does and all theology should, but any specific questions or topics you want me to bring up with him would be greatly appreciated.
Right now I am reading ‘God for a Secular Society‘ and in the introduction he tells this little story which I really enjoyed:
When the modern world was born, three good fairies came along, bringing their good wishes. The first of them wished the child
individual liberty, the second wished it social justice, and the third prosperity. But then, on the evening of the same day, the wicked fairy turned up and pronounced: ‘Only two of these three wishes can be fulfilled.’ So the modern world of the West chose individual liberty and prosperity. The modern world of the East chose social justice and prosperity. But the philosophers and theologians chose for their ideal world individual liberty and social justice, and consequently never arrived at prosperity. (2)
Tripp,
I’d like to know how Moltmann has lived out his theology. What has his praxis looked like? How has he helped the Word become flesh? What are his reflections on his actual church experience? And what percentage of his theoretical has become actual?
His essay in Passion for Life (same title) has had a profound impact on me since 1982.
Rev. Jack Cuzzi
Thanks for your website!
Hope separates from the rest of creation. We can go beyond everything past and present in the power of the coming, the power of the promise.
Comparing Jurgen Moltmann with Dorothee Soelle, Harvey Cox, Eberhard Arnold, Soren Kierkegaard and Eberhard Juengel would be life-giving. The mammon spirit wrestles with the community spirit (cf. Eberhard Arnold).
I hope you will check out my website with translated articles on liberation theology and trinitarian theology.
http://www.freewebs.com/mbtranslations/