The Living God and the Fullness of Life

Happy Moltmann Monday! I’m continuing to share selections that relate to original blessing from Moltmann’s work, and this one comes from his most recent book, The Living God and the Fullness of Life. After he quotes Psalm 22:9-10, he goes on to say: Every child is born into God’s great…

Today’s selection comes from Moltmann’s most recent book The Living God and the Fullness of Life. He’s talking about community and our role in society and as the church. I thought it was fitting to ponder today: The love for life creates community, but our late-capitalist societies are becoming class…

Happy Moltmann Monday, all! Today’s selection comes from The Living God and the Fullness of Life in a section on the doctrine of suffering in Buddhism and the doctrine of love in Paul’s letters. Love is the name we give the most intense experience of life. Human beings as we know…

Today’s Moltmann Monday excerpt comes from his new book The Living God and the Fullness of Life on a section about embodied spirituality: As the word spirituality suggests, what we are talking about here is the seizure of the human being by God’s Spirit….But if the soul is defined through detachment…