Experiences of God

by Jürgen Moltmann

Overview

Enduring meditations on hope, anxiety, and mysticalexperience, together with the author's personalconfession of faith.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800614065
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	10/01/1980
Edition description:	1st American ed
Pages:	92
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 9.50(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Jürgen Moltmann is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He is the author of more than twenty books with Fortress Press, including The Crucified God (1973), Theology of Hope (1993), and The Spirit of Life (2001).

Table of Contents

Why am I a Christian?     1
Hope     19
The command to hope     19
The things that contradict hope     20
Faith which makes a new beginning possible     24
The new beginning that finds the future     28
Called to hope     36
Anxiety     37
Anxiety and hope     39
The anxiety of Christ     42
'Release us from our anguish'     48
The pain of God     50
The Theology of Mystical Experience     55
Contemplation in a World of Action     55
Action and meditation     57
Meditation and contemplation     61
Experience of God in the World     68
Contemplation and mystical union     68
Mysticism and discipleship     71
The vision of the world in God     77
Notes     81