The Spirit of Life: A Universal Affirmation

por Jürgen Moltmann

Editorial:

Fortress Press

, 2001

Overview

Jürgen Moltmann, “the foremost Protestant theologian in the world,” brings his characteristic audacity to this traditional topic, cutting to the heart of the matter with a simple identification: What we experience every day as the spirit of life is the spirit of God. Such considerations give Moltmann’s treatment of the different aspects of life in the Spirit a verve and vitality that are concrete and existential.

Veteran readers will find a rich and subtle extension of Moltmann’s Trinitarian and Christological works as he makes bold use of key insights from feminist and ecological theologies. Newcomers will find a fascinating entree into the heart of his work: the transformative potential of the future.

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Contents

• Experience of Life–Experience of God
• Historical Experience of the Spirit
• Trinitarian Experience of the Spirit
• The Spirit of Life
• The Liberation for Life
• The Justification of Life
• The Rebirth to Life
• The Sanctification of Life
• The Charismatic Powers of Life
• Theology of Mystical Experience
• The Fellowship of the Spirit
• The Personhood of the Spirit

Product Details

• Title: The Spirit of Life: A Universal Affirmation
• Author: Jürgen Moltmann
• Translator: Margaret Kohl
• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Pages: 380
• Christian Group: Reformed
• Resource Type: Systematic Theologies
• Topic: Spirituality

About Jürgen Moltmann

Jürgen Moltmann studied Christian theology in England and, after his return to Germany, in Göttingen. He served as a pastor from 1952 to1958 in Bremen. Since 1967 he has been Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen and retired there in 1994. Among his many influential and award-winning books are The Theology of Hope (1967), The Crucified God (1974), The Trinity and the Kingdom (1981), The Spirit of Life (1994), and The Coming of God (1996), winner of the Grawemeyer Award in 2000, all published by Fortress Press.

Contents

Top Highlights

“The operations of God’s life-giving and life-affirming Spirit are universal and can be recognized in everything which ministers to life and resists its destruction. This efficacy of the Spirit does not replace Christ’s efficacy, but makes it universally relevant.” (Page xi)

“My starting point is that the efficacy of Christ is not without the efficacy of the Spirit, which is its goal; but that the efficacy of the Spirit is nevertheless distinguishable from the efficacy of Christ, and is not congruent with that or absorbed by it. As the Old Testament shows, the operations of God’s Spirit precede the workings of Christ; and the New Testament tells us that they go beyond the workings of Christ.” (Page xi)

“On the other hand, the continual assertion that God’s Spirit is bound to the church, its word and sacraments, its authority, its institutions and ministries, impoverishes the congregations.” (Page 2)

“The Emerging Doctrine of the Holy Spirit in the Writings of Jürgen Moltmann, Louisville 1983.” (Page xi)

“What the Spirit effects allows its subjectivity to be discerned (as the effector of a work), but not its personhood. Its personhood becomes comprehensible only from that which the Spirit is, in relation to the Father and the Son.²⁷ For personhood is always being-in-relationship. But the relationships which constitute the personhood of the Spirit must be looked for within the Trinity itself, not in the Spirit’s outward efficacies.” (Page 11)