Experiences in Theology : Ways and Forms of Christian Theology

by MOLTMANN JURGEN

• ISBN13: 9780800632670
• ISBN10: 0800632672
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-11-01
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

Summary

In this volume, the final in his series of systematic "contributions" to theology, Moltmann looks ahead from the landmarks of his own theological journey. He searches out the intersections of his own life with contemporary events that have kindled and impelled his theological thinking. The perspective of hope is explained freshly, while other basic theological themes and concepts are developed and interrelated.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	xii
Translator's Note	xiii
Preface	xiv
I. What is Theology?
Where do we think theologically?	3	(7)
Locations of personal theological
Existence Existential theology	3	(1)
Theology in the congregation	4	(1)
Theology for the church	5	(1)
Theology in the university	6	(4)
Who is a theologian?	10	(13)
The shared theology of all believers	11	(4)
The theology of atheists	15	(3)
Theology in interfaith dialogue	18	(5)
How does someone become a true theologian?	23	(5)
Suffering from God and delight in God
Theology of history	28	(15)
The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob: religions of history	28	(3)
The experience of time - remembrance - narrative: `scriptural religion'	31	(2)
The discernment of God in history	33	(5)
`Knowing' God - `forgetting' God	38	(3)
A modern `end of history'?	41	(2)
Christian theology	43	(21)
The reasonableness of faith: I believe so that I may understand (Credo ut intelligam)	45	(6)
The reasonableness of hope: hope become wise (docta spes)	51	(6)
The reasonableness of love (intellectus amoris)	57	(4)
Is Christian theology `revealed' theology?	61	(3)
Natural theology	64	(23)
Natural theology as the presupposition for Christian theology	65	(5)
Natural theology as the goal of Christian theology	70	(3)
Christian theology itself is the true natural theology	73	(6)
Natural theology as a task for Christian theology	79	(8)
II. Hermeneutics of Hope
The logic of promise	87	(27)
Origins of the book Theology of Hope	87	(6)
Promise not prophecy	93	(3)
The covenant oath	96	(2)
Promise makes God's future present	98	(4)
Promise opens up history in the possibilities of God	102	(4)
A critique of the Reformation concept of promissio	106	(3)
The real promise of creation	109	(5)
Historical hermeneutics	114	(20)
The genesis of the new political theology and of political hermeneutics	114	(4)
Historical hermeneutics of the future	118	(7)
The hermeneutics of the Bible's promissory history	125	(9)
Trinitarian hermeneutics of `holy scripture'	134	(17)
What makes writings `holy scriptures'?	134	(5)
Is the Bible the Word of God or a human testimony of faith?	139	(6)
The Spirit of life as the real interpreter	145	(3)
The biblical texts as furthering life	148	(3)
Theological epistemology	151	(32)
The axiom of likeness	151	(4)
The principle of analogy	155	(6)
The play of metaphors	161	(5)
Negative or apophatic theology	166	(3)
Dialectical knowing: unlike knows unlike	169	(4)
Counter-images, counter-histories and counter-worlds of subversive talk about God	173	(4)
Sacramental language: the faith-creating word	177	(6)
III. Mirror Images of Liberating Theology
The two sides of oppression	183	(6)
Black theology for whites	189	(28)
My personal access to black theology	189	(2)
African slavery (1518-1888) and the building of the modern world of the West	191	(6)
Marcus Mosiah Garvey (1887-1940) and the `Back to Africa' movement	197	(4)
Malcolm X (1925-1965) and black separation	201	(5)
Martin Luther King (1929-1968) and American integration	206	(5)
James Cone and black theology	211	(6)
Latin American liberation theology for the First World	217	(32)
Personal experiences	217	(4)
The exploitation of a continent and the building up of the Western world	221	(9)
The preferential option for the poor - the option for Christ	230	(7)
Historical liberation and eschatological redemption	237	(7)
The Roman fight against liberation theology	244	(5)
Minjung theology for the ruling classes	249	(19)
Personal encounters in Korea	249	(3)
Jesus and the people (ochlos) in the Gospel of Mark	252	(3)
Messiah and minjung	255	(3)
Who is `the suffering servant of God'?	258	(4)
`We are the people' in democracy and church	262	(6)
Feminist theology for men	268	(25)
The beginnings of my personal sensitivity to feminist theology	268	(6)
Patriarchy and its consequences: facts and interpretations	274	(4)
The Bible and patriarchy	278	(5)
Patriarchy and the church	283	(6)
The liberation of the man from the patriarchal God complex	289	(4)
Unanswered questions	293	(10)
If praxis is the criterion of theory, what is the criterion of praxis?	294	(1)
If the crucified people are to redeem the world, who then redeems the people?	295	(2)
If the goal of liberation is to make the people the determining subject of their own history, what is the goal of that history?	297	(1)
Does liberation theology lead to the liberation of the poor and women from Christian theology?	298	(5)
IV. The `Broad Place' of the Trinity
Personal approaches	303	(6)
I believe in the triune God	309	(4)
The one name of the triune God	309	(1)
The trinitarian history of God	310	(3)
From the historical hope in God's promise to the spatial experience of God's indwelling	313	(8)
The unity of the Trinity: the concept of perichoresis	321	(3)
Trinitarian experience of God	324	(4)
The trinitarian experience of fellowship	328	(4)
`The Trinity is our social programme'	332	(12)
Epilogue
`The Fear of the Lord is the Beginning of Wisdom': Science and Wisdom	334	(10)
Notes	344	(40)
Index of Names	384