Happy Easter! Today’s selection comes from The Way of Jesus Christ in a section on the eschatological resurrection of Christ. If we look at the way these christophanies* and the Easter seeing of the men and women concerned were interpretatively perceived, we can discover three dimensions in their structure: The…
Happy Moltmann Monday! Today’s excerpt comes from Theology of Hope, in a section on the resurrection (bold mine): When the question of the reality of the resurrection is raised today, then it mostly takes the form: Is he risen?…Is he risen in the sense of a reality accessible to ‘historical…
Alleluia and Happy Easter! Today we are talking about very big, very important things. Our MM quote comes from The Way of Jesus Christ, in a section about resurrection, of course. The bold words are mine…I wanted to make sure these zingers really got your attention: Christ’s death and his…
Happy Moltmann Monday, all! In honor of All Saints Day, I wanted to share with you a snippet of a really fantastic passage from The Way of Jesus Christ where Moltmann talks about the community of the living and the dead. It goes on for a few pages, and I’ve skipped…
This Moltmann Monday quote is from The Way of Jesus Christ again, from his section on Christology and its relevance: The theme of the acknowledgement ‘Jesus is the Christ, Jesus is the Lord’ is not merely the mystery of Jesus’ person. From the very beginning, and quite essentially, this acknowledgement…
