{"id":129711,"date":"2024-06-05T17:27:00","date_gmt":"2024-06-05T21:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129711"},"modified":"2024-06-05T18:00:57","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T22:00:57","slug":"ct-jurgen-moltmann-theologian-of-hope-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=129711","title":{"rendered":"(CT) J\u00fcrgen Moltmann, Theologian of Hope, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

J\u00fcrgen Moltmann, a theologian who taught that Christian faith is founded in the hope of the resurrection of the crucified Christ and that the coming kingdom of God acts upon human history out of the eschatological future,\u00a0died<\/a>\u00a0on June 3 in T\u00fcbingen, Germany. He was 98.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moltmann is widely regarded as one of the most important theologians since World War II. According to theologian Miroslav Volf, his work was \u201cexistential and academic, pastoral and political, innovative and traditional, readable and demanding, contextual and universal,\u201d as he showed how the central themes of Christian faith spoke to the \u201cfundamental human experiences\u201d of suffering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The World Council of Churches reports<\/a> that Moltmann is \u201cthe most widely read Christian theologian\u201d of the last 80 years. Religion scholar Martin Marty said<\/a> his writings \u201cinspire an uncertain Church\u201d and \u201cfree people from the dead hands of dead pasts.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Moltmann was not an evangelical, but many evangelicals engaged deeply with his work. The popular Christian author Philip Yancey called Moltmann one of his heroes<\/a> and said in 2005 that he had \u201cplowed through\u201d nearly a dozen of his books.<\/p>Read it all<\/a>.

What J\u00fcrgen Moltmann learned from his time as a pastor: When the old farmers roll their eyes at you, your theology has gotten too abstract.

That and more in my @CTmagazine<\/a> obit for the theologian of hope:https:\/\/t.co\/RHSKJVKrKZ<\/a><\/p>— Daniel Silliman (@danielsilliman) June 5, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>