Jesus Christ for Today's World

by Moltmann, Jurgen

• ISBN13: 9780800628178
• ISBN10: 0800628179
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-08-01
• Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Pub

Summary

Moltmann formulates necessary questions about the significance of Jesus the Christ for persons today. He offers a compelling portrait of the earthly Jesus as the divine brother in our distress and suffering and points to the risen Christ as the warrant for the 'future in which God will restore everything...and gather everything into his kingdom.'

Table of Contents

Who is Christ for Us Today?	p. 1
Jesus and the Kingdom of God	p. 7
The kingdom of God and Jesus	p. 7
'The kingdom of God': biblical perspectives	p. 8
Some theological clarifications	p. 19
First the kingdom of God	p. 24
The Passion of Christ and the Pain of God	p. 30
Suffering and the question about God	p. 30
The passion of Christ	p. 31
The theology of the cross	p. 36
The practice of discipleship of the cross	p. 45
The Anxiety of Christ	p. 50
Fear and hope	p. 50
The anxiety of Christ	p. 53
'Release us from our anguish...'	p. 54
The Tortured Christ	p. 58
What makes people torture?	p. 58
The tortured Christ is the brother of the tortured	p. 64
The risen Christ is the judge of the torturers	p. 67
Resistance against torture	p. 69
The Resurrection of Christ - Hope for the World	p. 71
The special character of the resurrection faith	p. 73
The resurrection in the perspective of history	p. 76
History in the perspective of the resurrection	p. 79
Resurrection in the perspective of nature	p. 82
The Cosmic Christ	p. 88
Christ after Chernobyl	p. 88
The cosmic Christ and early Christian tradition	p. 90
An outline for a differentiated cosmic christology	p. 94
Christ - the driving force of evolution?	p. 99
Political and spiritual consequences	p. 106
Jesus between Jews and Christians	p. 108
The messianic perspective	p. 109
Jesus in Jewish-Christian dialogue	p. 109
'Behold I Make All Things New': The Great Invitation	p. 130
God comes to the world to renew it: biblical perspectives	p. 132
God's future and his righteousness: some theological questions and answers	p. 138
The gospel of God's future	p. 145
Notes	p. 148
Index of Names	p. 151
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