Limping but blessed : Jürgen Moltmann's search for a liberating anthropology / Ton van Prooijen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Prooijen, Ton van, author.

Series:

Currents of Encounter ; 24.

Currents of Encounter ; 24

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Rodopi, [2004]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

For Jürgen Moltmann, theological anthropology must be liberating. It should take a stand against dehumanizing images and concepts of human life and point out ways to "true humanity." In his view, a theologian can develop such a liberating anthropology only if he speaks explicitly from the perspective of God's kingdom as conceived in the Bible and the Christian tradition and if he speaks to and in his context, as one who experiences contemporary sufferings and hopes. But how? This book analyzes the development of Moltmann's theology in the light of this quest for a liberating view on human life. It examines the anthropological concerns in the different stages of his theological enterprise: his post-war Trümmertheologie, the "loose theological threads" of the 1950s, his theology of hope and promise in the 1960s, his theology of the cross, human rights and play in the 1970s and his ecological and "charismatic" theology of the 1980s and 1990s. Moltmann's theological thinking has taken place consciously at the intersection of personal experiences, historical challenges, biblical testimony and the fundamentals of the Christian tradition. Analyzing his quest for a liberating anthropology in a chronological way, this study therefore gives an impression of the frictions and fault lines of Christian anthropology in the context of the societal changes during the second half of the twentieth century. A concluding chapter discusses some of the problems accentuated in the course of this analysis and evaluates some valuable leads for a Christian anthropology today.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations of Works Cited

1. Introduction

2. Towards the Homeland of True Humanity: Exercises in Imaginative Anthropology

3. Singing the Lord's Song in a Foreign Land: Exercises in Critical Anthropology

4. In the Spacious Place of the Triune God: Exercises in Sabbatical Anthropology

5. Re-embedding the Disembedded? Concluding Debate

Samenvatting (Dutch Summary)

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

94-012-0141-2

1-4237-9083-9

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401201414 DOI