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Intends to bring together the biblical, historical, and theological elements of an integrated Christian vision of the world, in light of our contemporary understandings of nature and the evolving universe.

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Publié par	Hymns Ancient & Modern
Date de parution	21 avril 2015
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EAN13	9780334053538
Langue	English
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Sun of Righteousness,
ARISE!

Also by Jürgen Moltmann and published by SCM Press:

A Broad Place: An Autobiography
The Church in the Power of the Spirit: A Contribution to Messianic Ecclesiology
The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology
The Crucified God
Experiences in Theology
God for a Secular Society: The Public Relevance of Theology
God in Creation: A New Theology of Creation and the Spirit of God
History and the Triune God
How I Have Changed: Reflections on Thirty Years of Theology
In the End the Beginning
Jesus Christ for Today’s World
Science and Wisdom
The Source of Life: The Holy Spirit and the Theology of Life
The Spirit of Life: A Universal Affirmation
Theology of Hope: The Ground and Implications of a Christian Eschatology
Theology Today
The Trinity and the Kingdom of God: The Doctrine of God
The Way of Jesus Christ

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher, SCM Press.
Translated by Margaret Kohl from the German Sein Name ist Gerechtigkeit: Neue Beiträge zur christlichen Gotteslehre , published by Gütersloher Verlagshaus, Gütersloh, copyright © 2009.
English translation © Margaret Kohl 2010
First published in the UK in 2010 by SCM Press Editorial office 13–17 Long Lane, London, EC1A 9PN, UK
SCM Press is an imprint of Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd (a registered charity) St Mary’s Works, St Mary’s Plain, Norwich, NR3 3BH, UK www.scm-canterburypress.co.uk
Published in the United States in 2010 by Fortress Press
British Library Cataloguing in Publication data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
978 0 334 04348 5
Printed and bound by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham SN14 6LH

To the Universidad Evangélica Nicaragüense in Managua
And the Chung Yuan Christian University in Chung-Li, Taiwan in cordial friendship
Contents

Preface
PART ONE THE FUTURE OF CHRISTIANITY

1. The Christian World
The Primal European Catastrophe and the End of Modern Christendom
2. The Rebirth of the Church
Three Paradigms for the Church
3. Hope for the Kingdom of God
PART TWO THE GOD OF RESURRECTION: CHRIST’S RESURRECTION THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY THE RESURRECTION OF NATURE

4. In the End the Beginning
The Legacy of Our Time: Progress and Catastrophe
Resurrection: The Acknowledgment of Christ and Belief in God
5. The Raising of Jesus
The Disciples’ Crucified Hope for the Future
The Women’s Shaken Belief in Death
The Appearances of the Risen Christ
The Touchable yet Untouched Body of Christ
The New Being of the Risen Christ
6. The Resurrection of the Body
Resurrectio carnis?
The Eschatological Moment
A New Spirituality of the Senses
7. The Resurrection of Nature: The New Creation of All Things
Resurrection The Meaning of Nature
Matter with Future
The ‘Resurrection of Nature’
8. Life against Death
9. God’s Kingdom Is the Kingdom of the Resurrection on Earth
The Kingdom of God on Earth
Resurrection against Death
PART THREE GOD IS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND JUSTICE

10. No Monotheism Is like Another: The Dissolution of an Inappropriate Term
A Primal or Ur-Monotheism?
Was There a Covenant Monotheism in Israel?
Trinitarian ‘Monotheism’ in Christianity?
Is the Islamic Belief in God Pure Monotheism?
Monotheism: Exclusive or Inclusive?
11. Shekinah: The Mystery of God’s Presence in Judaism and Christianity
The Question: Where Is God?
Shekinah Theology in Scripture
The Interpretation of the Shekinah in Contemporary Literature
Shekinah Theology in the New Testament
Christ Companion on the Way and Fellow Sufferer
12. Psalm 82: Righteousness and Justice The Measure of the Gods
The Assembly of the Gods
YHWH Calls the Gods to Repent
YHWH’s Righteousness That Brings about Justice
The Poor and the Earth
The Mortality of the Gods
13. Sun of Righteousness: The Gospel about Judgment and the New Creation of All Things
Justice in Mesopotamia, Egypt and Israel
The Last Judgment according to Christian Tradition: The Final Reckoning
The Sunrise of Christ’s Righteousness and Justice
Dialectical Universalism
Postscript about the Universal Theology of Grace and the Particularist Theology of Faith and the Universal Glorification of God
14. The Triune God
The New Trinitarian Thinking
Perichoresis
The Trinitarian Experience of God
The Trinitarian Experience of Community
Trinitarian Experiences of Space
15. Face to Face: A Meditation on the Seeing of God
The Human Senses
Knowing and Loving
Wondering and Seeing
Face to Face
‘The Lord Spoke to Moses Face to Face as a Man Speaks to His Friend’
‘Now We See in a Glass Dimly, but Then Face to Face. Now I Know in Part but Then I Shall Know Even as I Am Known’
The Contemplation of God and God’s Presence in All Things
PART FOUR GOD IN NATURE

16. Natural Science and the Hermeneutics of Nature
Do We Understand What We Know?
The Idea of the Two Books: Holy Scripture and ‘the Book of Nature’
The General Doctrine of Signs: Signatura rerum or the Signature of All Things
The Theological Doctrine of Signs
The World as Nature and as Creation: Theological Interpretative Patterns
The Sighs of the Divine Spirit in All Things and All People
17. The Theory of Evolution and Christian Theology: From ‘the War of Nature’ to Natural Cooperation and from ‘the Struggle for Existence’ to Mutual Recognition
Charles Darwin and ‘Natural Selection as Affecting Civilized Nations’
Possibilities of Artificial Selection: Eugenic Projects
The Neurobiological Thesis: ‘At the Centre of Biology Is Mutual Relationship and Cooperation’
The Genesis of More Complex Forms of Life
The World in Its Becoming The Future in Its Coming
Notes
Index

Preface
And this is the name by which he will be called:
The Lord is our righteousness.
The contributions published here came into being during the last ten years, being presented as lectures at meetings of the Gesellschaft für Evangelische Theologie or as essays in the journal Evangelische Theologie . They are intended to contribute not only to the specific Christian perception of God, but also to joy in the God of Jesus Christ. The One who lets the sun rise on the evil and the good is himself ‘the sun of righteousness’ and this is the title I have given to one of the chapters in the present book.
The order of the contributions in the present book follows three fundamental Christian insights:

God is the God of Christ’s resurrection.
God is the righteousness which creates justice and puts things to rights.
The traces and signs of God give the world meaning.
These insights lead us into the wide living spaces of the triune God.
I began to study theology sixty years ago. Theology was for me then, and is still, a fascinating, disturbing and wonderful discipline, an adventure of ideas, a progression into new spheres, and a beginning without end. This book is intended to bring out my experience that it is a profound joy to think about life and death, the future and the earth before God, and what that means theologically. But at the beginning and at the end is always God himself. God is our joy, God is our torment, God is our longing. It is God who draws us and sustains us. We are theologians for God’s sake. Theology is a function of God’s before it becomes a function of the church.
When I think back, I discover with some surprise that I have always understood Christian theology as a unity, irrespective of the persons who have thought it and maintained it. From Orthodoxy to the Pentecostal movement in Europe, Asia, Africa and America, all theologians belong to the whole of Christendom on earth and to the thousand-year-old communio theologorum . In Christ there is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Greek nor barbarian, neither master nor servant, and neither man nor woman. All become one because the frontiers that divide them have been broken down. And the same is true in Christian theology. Everyone who has contributed something to the knowledge of God must be listened to and taken seriously. Christian theology reaches out beyond denominational frontiers and cultural barriers. Its discussions do not run parallel to confessional boundaries. I myself have never felt the need to defend my own confession towards anyone else, but have taken account of the other traditions with curiosity, and with admiration too, as being complementary to my own. I was ordained in the Reformed tradition and have served as pastor in its congregations, but this tradition is my starting point, not my boundary. To be evangelical in the true sense means thinking ecumenically, for the gospel of Christ