The Crucified God: 40th Anniversary Edition

by Jürgen Moltmann, Miroslav Volf (Foreword by)

Overview

From its English publication in 1973, Jrgen Moltmanns The Crucified God garnered much attention, and it has become one of the seminal texts of twentieth-century theology. Following up on his groundbreaking Theology of Hope, The Crucified God established the cross as the foundation for Christian hope. Moltmanns dramatic innovation was to see the cross not as a problem of theodicy but instead as an act of ultimate solidarity between God and humanity. In this, he drew on liberation theology, and he was among the first to bring third-world theologies into a first-world context.

Moltmann proposes that suffering is not a problem to be solved but instead that suffering is an aspect of Gods very being: God is love, and love invariably involves suffering. In this view, the crucifixion of Jesus is an event that affects the entirety of the Trinity, showing that The Crucified God is more than an arresting titleit is a theological breakthrough.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781506402956
Publisher:	Augsburg Fortress, Publishers
Publication date:	11/01/2015
Edition description:	Anniversary
Pages:	506
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.70(h) x 1.40(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).

Miroslav Volf is Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School. Among his notable books is After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity (Eerdmans, 1998).