Jürgen Moltmann Biography
Jürgen Moltmann is a German Reformed theologian. He is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen.
Jürgen Moltmann Age
He was born in Hamburg. He described his German upbringing as thoroughly secular. At 16, he idolized Albert Einstein and anticipated studying mathematics at university. The physics of relativity were “fascinating secrets open to knowledge”; theology as yet played no role in his life.
Jürgen Moltmann Family
Moltmann’s grandfather was a grand master of the Freemasons. No other information on his paternal parents or siblings is disclosed to the [ublic. He has kept this field private.
Jürgen Moltmann Wife
He is married to Elisabeth. He talks about her most of the time.
Jürgen Moltmann Children
No information on his children is disclosed to the public. He has kept this field private.
Jürgen Moltmann Educational Background
He was educated at The University of Göttingen and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen.
Jürgen Moltmann Books
Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology, SCM, London, 1967
The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ As the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology, SCM, London, 1973
The Church in the Power of the Spirit: A Contribution to Messianic Ecclesiology, SCM, London, 1975
The Trinity and the Kingdom: The Doctrine of God, Harper and Row, New York, 1981
God in Creation, SCM, London, 1985
The Way of Jesus Christ, SCM, London, 1990
The Spirit of Life: A Universal Affirmation, SCM, London, 1992
The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology, Fortress, Minneapolis, 1996
Experiences in Theology: Ways and Forms of Christian Theology, SCM, London, 2000
“The Lordship of Christ and Human Society,” in Two Studies in the Theology of Bonhoeffer, pp. 19–94, 1967
Theology of Joy, SCM, London, 1972 (American edition: Theology of Play, Harper & Row, New York, 1972 [note: pagination differs])
Religion, Revolution and the Future, Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, 1969
Hope and Planning, Harper & Row, New York, 1971
The Gospel of Liberation, Word, Waco, Texas, 1973
Human Identity in Christian Faith, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1974
Man: Christian Anthropology in the Conflicts of the Present, SPCK, London, 1974 (Reprinted as On Human Being: Christian Anthropology in the Conflicts of the Present, Fortress, Minneapolis, 2009)
The Experiment Hope, SCM, London, 1975
The Open Church, SCM, London, 1978 (American edition: The Passion for Life: A Messianic Lifestyle, Fortress, Philadelphia, 1978)
Meditations on the Passion: Two Meditations on Mark 8:31-38, Paulist, New York, 1979
The Future of Creation, SCM, London, 1979
Experiences of God, SCM, 1980
God–His and Hers, Crossroad, New York, 1981
Jewish Monotheism and Christian Trinitarian Doctyine: A Dialogue by Pinchas Lapide and Jürgen Moltmann, Fortress, Philadelphia, 1981
Following Jesus Christ in the World Today: Responsibility for the World and Christian Discipleship, Institute of Mennonite Studies, Elkhart, IN, 1983
Humanity in God, Pilgrim, New York, 1983
The Power of the Powerless, SCM, London, 1983
On Human Dignity: Political Theology and Ethics, Fortress, Philadelphia, 1984
Communities of Faith and Radical Discipleship, Mercer University Press, Macon, 1986
Theology Today: Two Contributions Towards Making Theology Present, Trinity International, Philadelphia, 1988
Creating a Just Future: The Politics of Peace and the Ethics of Creation in a Threatened World, Trinity International, Philadelphia, 1989
History and the Triune God: Contributions to Trinitarian Theology, SCM, London, 1991
Jesus Christ for Today’s World, SCM, London, 1994
Theology and the Future of the Modern World, Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada, Pittsburgh, PA, 1995
The Source of Life, SCM, London, 1997
A Passion for God’s Reign, Eerdmans, Grand Rapids, MI, 1998
Is There Life After Death?, Marquette University Press, Milwaukee, 1998
Passion for God: Theology in Two Voices, Westminster John Knox, Louisville, KY, 2003
Science and Wisdom, SCM, London, 2003
In the End the Beginning, SCM, London, 2004
A Broad Place: An Autobiography, Minneapolis, Fortress, 2009
Sun of Righteousness, Arise! God’s Future for Humanity and the World, Fortress, Minneapolis, 2010
Ethics of Hope, Fortress, Minneapolis, 2012
Jürgen Moltmann: Collected Readings, Fortress, Minneapolis, 2014
The Living God and the Fullness of Life, Westminster John Knox,
Louisville, KY, 2015
Jürgen Moltmann Quotes
“When God becomes man in Jesus of Nazareth, he not only enters into the finitude of man, but in his death on the cross also enters into the situation of man’s godforsakenness. In Jesus he does not die the natural death of a finite being, but the violent death of the criminal on the cross, the death of complete abandonment by God. The suffering in the passion of Jesus is abandonment, rejection by God, his Father. God does not become a religion, so that man participates in him by corresponding religious thoughts and feelings. God does not become a law, so that man participates in him through obedience to law. God does not become an ideal, so that man achieves community with him through constant striving. He humbles himself and takes upon himself the eternal death of the godless and the godforsaken so that all the godless and the godforsaken can experience communion with him.”
“That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart but is itself this unquiet heart in man. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future, stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present.”
“Jesus’ healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly ‘natural’ things in a world that is unnatural, demonized and wounded.”