In the End -The Beginning: The Life of Hope

by Jurgen Moltmann

Overview

Jurgen Moltmann's new book is a powerful testament to personal hope in chaotic, even catastrophic, times and one of his most personal and compelling works to date. Debunking the classic images of Christian apocalyptic scenarios, Moltmann instead shows that Christian expectation of the future has nothing to do with a final struggle between God and Satan but everything to do with new beginnings and a horizon of hope -- in our birth, in our many rebirths, and in our resurrection.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781451411980
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	05/28/2004
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	298 KB

Table of Contents

	Introduction	ix
Part 1	There is a Magic in Every Beginning
I	The Promise of the Child	3
	The Mystery of the Child: Some Perspectives	6
	The Messianic Child	10
	Jesus and Children: The Revaluation of Values	12
	Hope Which Shines Out for Everyone in Childhood	15
II	Does the Future Belong to the Young?	19
	The Modern Discovery of Youth	20
	The German 'Wandervogel' Youth Movement	21
	The Hitler Youth	24
	Consumer Children	25
	The Future Makes Us Young	27
Part 2	In my End is My Beginning
III	New Beginnings in Catastrophes: Biblical Catastrophe Theology	33
	Personal Experiences	33
	The Flood and the Covenant with Noah: An Archetypal Image of the End of the World	36
	Israel's Catastrophe and the Beginning of Judaism	41
	The Golgotha Catastrophe and the Beginning of Christianity	45
	Catastrophes of the Modern World: An End without a Beginning?	48
IV	Deliver Us from Evil: God's Righteousness and Justice and the Rebirth of Life	53
	Critical Reservations about the Traditional Theological Interpretations of the Doctrine of Justification	54
	The Cry for Justice	56
	God Is Just when He Brings about Justice	61
	Jesus Christ--God's Righteousness and Justice in the World of Victims and Perpetrators	63
	The Resurrection of Christ with the Victims and Perpetrators of Evil	74
	The Right of Inheritance of God's Children	76
	The Justification of God	77
V	The Spirituality of the Wakeful Senses	79
	'Could You Not Watch with Me One Hour?'	80
	Spiritual Paralyses Today	81
	Praying and Awakening	83
	'Watchman, What of the Night?'	86
VI	The Living Power of Hope	87
	The Reasonableness of Hope	88
	The Sin of Despair	93
Part 3	O Beginning Without Ending ...
VII	Is There a Life after Death?	101
	Is Death the Finish?	101
	What Is Left of Life? Are We Mortal or Immortal?	103
	Where Are the Dead?	108
	The Future of the Life Cut Short and Spoiled	116
VIII	Mourning and Consoling	119
	Experiences of Life and Death Today	119
	Only Love Can Mourn	122
	Mourning and Melancholia: A Discussion with Sigmund Freud	125
	Consolation and the Rebirth to Life	129
IX	The Community of the Living and the Dead	131
	The Ancestor Cult	131
	Hope for Those Who Have Gone Before	133
	Prayers for the Dead?	136
	The Culture of Remembrance	137
X	What Awaits Us?	139
	What Awaits Us at the Last Judgement?	140
	Does Hell Threaten?	145
	Is There Salvation for the Dead?	148
	'The Restoration of All Things'	149
XI	Eternal Life	152
	What Are We Asking About?	152
	How Can Human Life Become Eternal?	155
	The Time of Eternal Life	159
	The Place of Eternal Life	160
	Will the Life We Have Lived Be Preserved in Eternal Life?	161
	What Can We Know about Eternal Life?	163
	Notes	165
	Earlier Publications Relating to the Subjects Treated Here	173
	Index	175