Happy Moltmann Monday, y’all! Today’s excerpt comes from The Spirit of Life in his chapter on the theology of mystical experience. I’m giving you the first few sentences for context, but pay attention to the last half particularly. The Greek philosophers, the [parents] of the Church, and the monastic Fathers…
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Happy Halloween, all! Today’s Moltmann quote comes from The Church in the Power of the Spirit in a section about the form of the church as fellowship on page 317: The church will not overcome its present crisis through reform of the administration of the sacraments, or from the reform…
I have been known to describe emerging church things as “Gestalt-y” which, I know, is a word I’ve entirely fabricated. And though I am partial to that word and idea even still, I do think Moltmann does a much better job of describing what I am trying to communicate when…
A late-evening Moltmann Monday posts for those of you who remind me when I skip a week… :) This one’s from God in Creation p.287: Israel has given the nations two archetypal images of liberation: the exodus and the sabbath. The exodus from slavery into the land of liberty is…
Happy Moltmann Monday! Today I’m sending you a little section from Jesus Christ for Today’s World which is one of Moltmann’s “broader audience” books (read: not academic theology). In this chapter he picks up an earlier strand of conversation he’s had with us about the false dichotomy of anxiety and…