Coming of God : Christian Eschatology

by Moltmann, Jurgen

• ISBN13: 9780800636661
• ISBN10: 080063666X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

Table of Contents

Preface	x
Abbreviations	xviii
Translator's Note	xx
I The Coming God	1	(46)
Eschatology Today
§ 1 The Transposition of Eschatology into Time	6	(7)
1. Prophetic Theology	7	(1)
2. Albert Schweitzer	7	(3)
3. Oscar Cullmann	10	(3)
§2 The Transposition of Eschatology into Eternity	13	(9)
1. Karl Barth	13	(3)
2. Paul Althaus	16	(3)
3. Rudolf Bultmann	19	(3)
S3 The Eschatology of the Coming God	22	(7)
1. The Coming God	23	(2)
2. Future or Advent?	25	(2)
3. The Category Novum	27	(2)
§4 The Rebirth of Messianic Thinking in Judaism	29	(20)
1. Ernst Bloch: 'The Spirit of Utopia' (1918)	30	(3)
2. Franz Rosenzweig: 'The Star of Redemption' (1921)	33	(3)
3. Gershom Scholem: 'The Messianic Idea in Judaism' (1959)	36	(2)
4. Walter Benjamin: 'Theses on the Philosophy of History' (1940)	38	(3)
5. Jacob Taubes and Karl Löwith: 'Western Eschatology' (1947) - A Theological Continuation or an Ecological Farewell?	41	(3)
6. The Redemption of the Future from the Power of History	44	(3)
II Eternal Life	47	(82)
Personal Eschatology
§ 1 Loved Life and Death	49	(9)
1. Is Death 'the Finish'?	49	(3)
2. Was this life all there is?	52	(2)
3. Suppressed Death - Reduced Life	54	(4)
§2 The Immortality of the Soul or the Resurrection of the Body?	58	(19)
1. The Immortal Soul and the Unlived Life	58	(7)
(a) The soul as divine substance	58	(3)
(b) The soul as transcendental subject	61	(2)
(c) The soul as the kernel of existence	63	(2)
2. The Raising of the Body and the Life Everlasting	65	(6)
3. The Immortality of the Lived Life	71	(6)
§3 Is Death the Consequence of Sin or Life's Natural End?	77	(19)
1. Biblical Experiences	78	(7)
2. The Church's Doctrine about the Death of the Sinner	85	(2)
3. The Modern Notion about a 'Natural Death'	87	(3)
4. The Mortality of Temporal Creation	90	(3)
5. Violent Death	93	(3)
§4 Where are the Dead?	96	(23)
1. The Doctrine of Purgatory	96	(5)
2. The Doctrine of the Soul's Sleep	101	(1)
3. Is there a Resurrection at Death?	102	(2)
4. The Fellowship of Christ with the Living and the Dead	104	(6)
(a) Do the dead have time in the fellowship of Christ?	105	(1)
(b) Do the dead have space in the fellowship of Christ?	106	(1)
(c) The community with the dead	107	(3)
5. Do we Live on Earth only Once?	110	(6)
6. The Future of the Spoiled Life: Some Personal Thoughts	116	(3)
§5 Death, Mourning and Consolation	119	(12)
1. Experiences of Mourning in Modern Society	119	(3)
2. Mourning and Melancholia: A Discussion with Sigmund Freud	122	(4)
3. The Rebirth to Life	126	(3)
III The Kingdom of God
Historical Eschatology	129	(2)
§ 1 The Apocalypse of History	131	(126)
1. Political Eschatology	131	(3)
2. Apocalyptic Eschatology	134	(7)
3. Eschatological Orders of Time in History	141	(5)
§ 2 Messianic Eschatology: 'The Thousand Years' Empire'	146	(1)
1. Pre-millenarianism and Jewish Messianism	147	(3)
2. Christian Millenarianism	150	(6)
3. The Post-Reformation Rebirth of Messianic Eschatology	156	(3)
§ 3 Political Millenarianism: 'The Holy Empire'	159	(1)
1. The Messianic Turn from Persecution to Domination: Constantine and the Consequences	159	(2)
2. Political Millenarianism: 'The Holy Empire'	161	(4)
3. Millenarian Christianity and its Mission of Violence	165	(3)
§ 4 Political Millenarianism: 'The Redeemer Nation'	168	(2)
1. 'The Chosen People'	170	(1)
2. The Rebirth of the Nation out of Sacrificial Death	171	(1)
3. 'The Manifest Destiny'	172	(3)
4. The Great Experiment	175	(3)
§ 5 Ecclesiastical Millenarianism: 'The Mother and Preceptress of the Nations'	178	(1)
1. Roma aeterna	178	(3)
2. Societas perfecta	181	(1)
3. 'Ruling with Christ'	182	(2)
§ 6 Epochal Millenarianism: The Birth of 'Modern Times' out of the Spirit of Messianic Hope	184	(8)
§ 7 Is Millenarian Eschatology Necessary?	192	(1)
1. Historical Millenarianism No - Eschatological Millenarianism Yes	192	(2)
2. The Sufferings and Future of Christ	194	(2)
3. Hope for Israel	196	(3)
4. What is 'Timely' Today?	199	(3)
§ 8 End-Times of Human History: Exterminism	202	(2)
1. The Nuclear End-Time: Methods of Mass Extermination	204	(4)
2. The Ecological End-Time: The Destruction of the Earth	208	(3)
3. The Economic End-Time: The Impoverishment of the Third World	211	(5)
4. Is Exterminism Apocalyptic?	216	(2)
§ 9 'The End of History': Post-historic Prophets	218	(8)
§ 10 Is Apocalyptic Eschatology Necessary?	226	(9)
§ 11 The Restoration of All Things	235	(22)
1. 'The Last Judgment' and its Ambivalent Outcome	235	(2)
2. The Return of the Doctrine of Universal Salvation	237	(3)
3. The Dispute about the Bible: Pro and Contra Universalism	240	(3)
4. The Theological Argument about Universal Salvation and the Double Outcome of Judgment	243	(3)
5. Double Predestination or God's Universal Election?	246	(4)
6. Christ's Descent into Hell and the Restoration of All Things	250	(7)
IV New Heaven - New Earth
Cosmic Eschatology	257	(64)
§ 1 The Future of Creation - Sabbath and Shekinah	261	(6)
§ 2 The Annihilation of the World or its Consummation?	267	(12)
1. The Annihilation of the World	268	(2)
2. The Transformation of the World	270	(2)
3. The Deification of the World	272	(3)
4. The Good Earth: Ecofeminism	275	(2)
5. The New Earth: Eschatological Ecology	277	(2)
§ 3 The End of Time in the Eternity of God	279	(17)
1. The Time of Creation	280	(4)
2. The Times of History	284	(8)
3. The Fulfilment of Time	292	(4)
§ 4 The End of Space in the Presence of God	296	(12)
1. The Space of Creation	296	(6)
2. Historical Spaces of God's Indwellings	302	(4)
3. The Fulfilment of Space in the Presence of God	306	(2)
§ 5 The Cosmic Temple: The Heavenly Jerusalem	308	(13)
1. The Earthly and the Heavenly Jerusalem	308	(3)
2. Jerusalem and Babylon/Rome	311	(2)
3. The City of God: Crystal Temple and Garden City	313	(2)
4. The Peoples of God	315	(2)
5. God's Cosmic Shekinah	317
V Glory
Divine Eschatology	321	(20)
§ 1 The Self-Glorification of God	324	(2)
§ 2 The Self-Realization of God	326	(4)
§ 3 Interactions between Divine and Human Activity	330	(6)
S 4 The Fulness of God and the Feast of Eternal Joy	336	(5)
Notes	341	(44)
Index of Names	385