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Biography of Jöurgen MoltmannName: Jöurgen MoltmannBirth Date: 1926 Death Date: N/A Place of Birth: Hamburg, Germany Nationality: German Gender: Male Occupations: professor Jöurgen Moltmann Jöurgen Moltmann (born 1926) was professor of systematic theology at the University of Tubingen. During the mid-1960s he achieved international prominence as the leading exponent of the "theology of hope." This, along with subsequent works in Christology, anthropology, and ethics, established him as one of Germany's most important Protestant theologians of the 20th century.Jöurgen Moltmann was born in 1926 in Hamburg, Germany. His childhood and pre-university education were lived during the years of the Nazi regime. In 1944 he was sent off to war and was captured (in February 1945) by the British. Although the war ended three months later, he was held as a prisoner of war for more than three years in Scotland and England. These were formative years for Moltmann. He spoke of the guilt and inconsolable grief he felt over the crimes of his country and the necessity of standing up to it all. …showed first 150 words…
…showed last 150 words…good introduction and contains a helpful autobiographical essay. The Church in the Power of the Spirit (1977) provides a profound study of mission for the modern church. The Trinity and the Kingdom (1981) further develops the doctrine of God. See also The Power of the Powerless (1983) and On Human Dignity: Political Theology and Ethics (1984). (Dates are for the English editions.) For evaluations, see Martin E. Marty and Dean G. Peerman (editors), New Theology No. 5 (1968) and New Theology No. 6 (1969); Frederick Herzog, The Future of Hope: Theology as Eschatology (1970); M. Douglas Meeks, Origins of the Theology of Hope (1974); and Christopher Morse, The Logic of Promise in Moltmann's Theology (1979). See also Christianity Today January 11, 1993; The Future of Theology : Essays in Honor of Jéurgen Moltmann, Eerdmans, 1996; Moltmann, Jéurgen, Love [videorecording] : The Foundation of Hope--A Celebration of the Life and Work of Jéurgen Moltmann and Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel, Harper & Row, 1988. |