“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 […]

Related: Christoph Blumhardt, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Earth, earth day, Earth Ethics, Ethics of Hope, Jürgen Moltmann

Jürgen Moltmann said the Ecological Crisis has provoked a New Natural Theology (November 23, 2017)

Is Karl Barth's No! to natural revelation the final word? Is God never revealed through nature? (i.e. natural revelation). May we learn nothing about God from studying nature? (i.e. natural theology). For a time, Karl Barth's Nein! had closed the door to natural theology, while the Nazis were in power, and […]

Related: Earth, ecological crisis, Jürgen Moltmann, Karl Barth, Natural Revelation, Natural Theology, Science and Wisdom

Jürgen Moltmann: God without Future begets a Future without God (October 17, 2014)

(source: wikipedia) Jürgen Moltmann's Religion, Revolution and the Future contains the two following quotations on Earth Ethics. An eschatology with a God without Future—a hope without the Earth—begets an Atheism that hopes for a Future without God. The Cosmic Christ, The Pantocrator, is The Lord over all Creation, not just a group of men or […]

Related: Earth, Earth Ethics, Jürgen Moltmann, Pantocrator, Religion Revolution and the Future