Jesus Christ for Today's World

by Jürgen Moltmann, Margaret Kohl

Overview

Jrgen Moltmann formulates necessary questions about the significance of Jesus the Christ for persons today. He offers a compelling portrait of the earthly Jesus as the divine brother in our distress and suffering and points to the risen Christ as the warrant for the "future in which God will restore everything . . . and gather everything into his kingdom." Urging that acknowledgment of Christ and discipleship are two sides of the same coin, Moltmann contends that the question of Jesus Christ for today is not just an intellectual one. Moltmann takes fresh approaches to a number of crucial topics: Jesus and the kingdom of God, the passion of Christ and the pain of God, Jesus as brother of the tortured, and the resurrection of Christ as hope for the world, the cosmic Christ, Jesus in Jewish-Christian dialogue, the future of God, and others.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800628178
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	08/21/1995
Series:	Works of Jurgen Moltmann Series
Edition description:	1st Fortress Press ed
Pages:	152
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.75(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

Jürgen Moltmann is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the University of Tübingen, Germany. He is the author of more than twenty books with Fortress Press, including The Crucified God (1973), Theology of Hope (1993), and The Spirit of Life (2001).

Margaret Kohl attended Oxford University and specialized in translating German theology after moving to Germany. She lives near Munich.