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ISBN-13: | 9781532612718 |
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Publisher: | Wipf & Stock Publishers |
Publication date: | 11/30/2016 |
Pages: | 188 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.40(d) |
About the Author
Braaten has authored and edited over fifty theological books, including Principles of Lutheran Theology (Fortress, 1983), The Future of God: The Revolutionary Dynamics of Hope (Harper & Row, 1969), Mother Church: Ecclesiology and Ecumenism (Fortress, 1998), Because of Christ: Memoirs of a Lutheran Theologian (Eerdmans, 2010), and Who Is Jesus? Disputed Questions and Answers (Eerdmans, 2011), as well as hundreds of articles and editorials in various academic journals.
Braaten was born on January 3, 1929 in St. Paul, Minnesota. He grew up on the island of Madagascar where his parents served as missionaries of the Norwegian Lutheran Church in America. He graduated from Augustana Academy, a Lutheran high school in Canton, South Dakota. He received degrees from St. Olaf College (BA), Luther Seminary (MDiv), and Harvard University Divinity School (ThD). In 1951 he was a Fulbright scholar at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), in 1957 a doctoral student at the University of Heidelberg where he wrote his dissertation, and in 1967 a Guggenheim Fellow at Oxford University.
In 1974 he spent a sabbatical making a worldwide lecture tour of various colleges and seminaries in Japan, China, India, Kenya, Tanzania, Madagascar, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. This tour resulted in a book on the universal mission of the church entitled, The Flaming Center (Fortress, 1977).
Table of Contents
Preface 9
Introduction: The Horizon of the Future 17
1 Doing Theology as Eschatology
2 A New Correlation with Futurology
Chapter I The Phenomenon of Hope - Man 33
1 A Critical Phenomenology
2 Hope and the Human Condition
3 The Cancellation of Hope by Myth
4 The Mediation of Hope Through History
5 Religion as Hope and Religionless Christianity
Chapter II The Power of the Future - God 58
1 Natural Theology and the Question of God
2 Jesus and the Power of the Future
3 God's Self-Definition in Jesus' Resurrection
4 Resurrection Hope and the Deadliness of Death
Chapter III The Presence of the Future - Jesus 82
1 Theodicy and the Cross of Jesus
2 Jesus: God's Representative and Ours
3 The Kingdom of God and His Righteousness
4 An Eschatological Concept of the Trinity
Chapter IV The Prolepsis of a New World - Church 109
1 The Kingdom of God and the Church
2 Proleptic Signs of the New World
3 The Relativity of the Structures
4 The Future of the Christian Mission
Chapter V The Politics of Hope - Society 141
1 Toward a Theology of Revolution
2 A Critique of the Two-Kingdom Doctrine
3 Christian Prophets of Revolution
4 Dynamic Principles of the Kingdom
5 The Church and Revolution Today
Notes 167
Index of Names 183