| Title: In the End, the Beginning: The Life of Hope By: Jurgen Moltmann Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 192 Vendor: Fortress Press Publication Date: 2004 | Dimensions: 8.5 X 5.5 (inches) Weight: 9 ounces ISBN: 0800636562 ISBN-13: 9780800636562 Stock No: WW636562 |
'In my end is my beginning,'' wrote T. S. Eliot, and Jrgen Moltmann's new book is a powerful testament to personal hope in chaotic, even catastrophic times.
As Moltmann's award-winning volume The Coming of God laid out the systematic framework of eschatology (the doctrine of the ''last things''), so here he explores the personal meaning of that fundamental affirmation for Christians. Debunking the classic images of Christian apocalyptic scenarios, the final struggle between God and Satan, Christ and the AntichristArmageddonMoltmann instead shows that Christian expectation of the future has nothing to do with these but everything to do with new beginnings and a horizon of hope. Three parts explore three particular beginnings: birth (childhood and youth), rebirth (failures and defeats), and resurrection (death, judgment, afterlife).
This brief volume promises to be one of Moltmann's most personal and compelling books.
Jürgen Moltmann is professor emeritus of systematic theology at the University of Tübingen (Germany). He is the author of over twenty books with Fortress Press, including The Crucified God (1973), Theology of Hope (1993), and The Spirit of Life (2001).
Margaret Kohlattended Oxford University and specialized in translating German theology after moving to Germany. She lives near Munich.
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