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All Blog Posts With Tag: Jürgen Moltmann
Jürgen Moltmann: The Annihilation of Hell by the Cosmic Christ Jesus (April 27, 2018)
This week, a celebrity pastor equated the love of Jesus with unending punishment in hell, and justified his comment with arguments such as counting the number of biblical references to Jesus (without any respect to author or intention, and as if the number of verses a word occurs in the […]
Karl Rahner on Why Atheists Glorify God (March 27, 2018)
"Be merciful to those who doubt" ~ Jude 22 (NIV)
Atheists are treated poorly by many Christians today and I'm deeply disturbed by the damning statements I've often heard Christians say to atheists. Not long ago I witnessed an impassive Christian say to an atheist that they were going to hell unless […]
Jürgen Moltmann is excellent at appropriating Jewish theology in this theological works and this advantage over other theologians is exemplified by his incorporation of Isaac Luria's concept of zimzum (also transliterated as tzimtzum or tsimtsum) into his doctrine of creation. What is zimzum? Moltmann explains that zimzum is god's self-contraction to make spaces within god […]
Jürgen Moltmann’s Criticism of Karl Barth’s Eschatology (March 2, 2018)
Karl Barth's eschatology is a topic I continually revisit because it is a ingenious solution problems in both futuristic eschatology and realized eschatology, however Barth's conclusions raises new problems that are deeply disturbing. Jürgen Moltmann improves upon Barth's eschatology, by going through it (in a similar way as Wolfhart Pannenberg), […]
Jürgen Moltmann on the Four Limits of the Reformation (January 22, 2018)
It is important to see the limits of the Reformation in the 16th century, in order to go beyond its limits. Jürgen Moltmann outlined four limits of the Protestant Reformation at the Unfinished Worlds conference in 2016. Even though the 500th anniversary of the Reformation is behind us now, it is […]
Top Ten of 2017 (January 1, 2018)
It's been a great year at the PostBarthian. Overall blog traffic in 2017 is 160% higher than 2016. It's also been a great year on social media too: Our @PostBarthian twitter has almost 16k followers (up from 10k last January), and our Postbarthian facebook page is doing well too.
I wrote […]
Jürgen Moltmann: The Logic of Hell is Inhumane and Extremely Atheistic (December 18, 2017)
Jürgen Moltmann said that the logic of hell is inhumane and extremely atheistic and Pelagian in his essay "The Logic of Hell" included in God Will Be All In All: The Eschatology of Jurgen Moltmann (pp. 43-47). Proponents of hell (!) argue that God's love is extended to all people but anyone who […]
Jürgen Moltmann believed that Non-Christians should be invited to the Lord's Supper, and that there should be no restrictions to the eucharist (commonly referred to as "fencing the table"). Wolfhart Pannenberg disagreed with Moltmann, and in his Systematic Theology Vol. III, Pannenberg criticized Moltmann's "eucharist community" as too broad of […]
Jürgen Moltmann on Inviting Non-Christians to the Lord’s Supper (December 13, 2017)
Jürgen Moltmann says that Jesus Christ's invitation to the Lord's Supper extends beyond the frontier of Christianity and includes the whole world, such that atheists and non-Christians are invited to partake the Eucharist. Moltmann argues that no restrictions to the Lord's Supper are justified, because Jesus invited the tax-collectors and […]
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 […]
