Subscribe to our mailing list.
All Blog Posts With Tag: Science and Wisdom
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 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 […]
Jürgen Moltmann on the End of Time and Eternity (June 1, 2017)
Time and Eternity
Time and Eternity is a challenging theological puzzle to understand (and explain!) Biblical speaking, Eternity is not the same as endless-Time. Time is a one-way arrow of successive moments that started 'in the beginning' (Gen 1:1) that runs irreversibly forward until the 'last day' when 'time shall be no more' […]