Jürgen Moltmann's life and work have marked the history of theology after the Second World War in Europe and North America like no other. He is the most widely read, quoted, and translated theologian of our time. Now, after celebrating his eightieth birthday, he looks back on a life engaged in and forging a Christian response to the tumult and opportunities of our age. In his autobiography Moltmann tells his engaging and searching life story, from his Hamburg youth in an unconventional parental home up to the "incompleteness" of the present moment. Yet his narrative also sheds light on the creative arc of Moltmann's work, on the journey of his own theological development from its beginnings after World War II through the beginnings of political theology and, most phenomenally, the advent of the theology of hope.
A wide-ranging document alert to the deeper currents of his time and ours, Moltmann's work is also an engrossing reconsideration of a life full of intense experience and new beginnings.

Jürgen Moltmann

1517 Media

United States, United States of America

27806, 2009

"Among the most acclaimed and accomplished theologians of the last hundred years, Jurgen Moltmann is also one of the most popular. His autobiography will certainly be widely read in the churches and the academy and will shed light on the intellectual development of this enormously influential theologian. Ironies abound in this engrossing story: An early life in a nonreligious home led to a lifetime preoccupation with God. Intense experience of death all around him in World War II yielded to a marvelous experience of gratitude and joy in life that are so characteristic of Moltmann. And being steeped in traditional German theology led to a pioneering role in political theology, ecological theology, feminist and Jewish-Christian dialogue, and - above all in the power of future hope to reframe the present."--Jacket

2024-07-01