“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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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 […]

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Jürgen Moltmann on Ethics of Hope and the Rights of the Earth (May 13, 2014)

Jurgen Moltmann's "Ethics of Hope" Jürgen Moltmann wrote his recent book, The Ethics of Hope, as a companion to his infamous, Theology of Hope. Karl Barth requested such a book as this in his review of the Theology of Hope in his personal letter reviewing it, where Barth wrote: "your book […]

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