Happy Moltmann Monday! Today’s excerpt comes from God in Creation in a section on the soul and the body: In the history of civilizations, ideas about ‘the self’ have undergone a remarkable transmigration. As long as the living character of the human being was seen in the inhaling and exhaling…
Since Earth Day was last week, I thought I’d do a belated Earth Day-edition Moltmann Monday for you, from this fantastic little section in Moltmann’s newest book, The Fullness of Life. If you want a quick, succinct description of a whole-earth Christian ecology, he gives you one in 5 pages….
Happy Moltmann Monday! I’m currently in Chicago at the Faith Forward conference having a lovely time. Today’s excerpt comes from The Way of Jesus Christ: If we look back at the creation story told in the Priestly Writing, we find the immanent unity of creation expressed in two formulas: 1. In…
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve found myself in profoundly different conversations with my middle school-aged kids, only to find myself talking to them at the end about attention. I guess that isn’t terribly surprising; attention is the engine driving middle school, after all. I remember telling my daughter…
Happy Moltmann Monday! If you didn’t hear, last week Professor Moltmann turned 90! So very happy birthday to him indeed. My friend Ben, the Moltmanniac, has a lovely top 10 post on his favorite Moltmann books to mark the occasion. I know we all join in wishing Professor Moltmann another…
