“Only the person who loves the earth and God in one can believe in the kingdom of God” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer (feat. Jürgen Moltmann) (April 22, 2019)

Today is Earth Day 2019. In The Ethics of Hope, Jürgen Moltmann praised Dietrich Bonhoeffer as one of the few "who made the earth the subject of theological thinking"[1] because he "understood the kingdom of God as the 'kingdom of resurrection on earth'"[2]. According to Moltmann, Bonhoeffer followed Christoph Blumhardt's […]

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Christoph Blumhardt: Parable of the Pharisee and Publican (January 23, 2015)

Helmut Gollwitzer's The Way of Life: Sermons in a Time of World Crisis contains a sermon from 1979 on the Parable of the Pharisee and Publican (Tax Collector), and in it, Gollwitzer summarizes Christoph Blumhardt's interpretation of this parable. Christoph Blumhardt and his father Johann Blumhardt are known for their Christian Universalism, or the hope […]

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