Resurrected to Eteal Life:On Dying and Rising

by: Jürgen Moltmann (Author),Ellen Yutzy Glebe(Translator)

Publisher: Fortress Press

Publication Date: April 13, 2021

Language: English

Print Length: 88 pages

ISBN-10: 1506469396

ISBN-13: 9781506469393

Book Description

In this deeply personal and daring meditation, eminent theologian Jürgen Moltmann challenges many closely held beliefs about the experience of dying, the nature of death, and the hope of eteal life. Moving deftly between biblical, theological, and existential domains, Moltmann argues that while we know intimately the experience of dying–both our loved ones’ dying and, ultimately, our own–death itself is a mystery. Are those who have died in fact dead? If the dead are alive, how or in what respect? When the dead awaken to eteal life, who wakes? Moltmann’s interrogations yield surprising and beautiful fruits. The living soul that awakens to eteal life is not a ghost in a machine, but the Lebensgestalt, the shape and story of a life, its human and divine contexts, its “whole.” Drawing on themes from his oeuvre’s entire arc, Resurrected to Eteal Life testifies to the inner unity of Moltmann’s theology:the cross, the Spirit, the kingdom, the end, and the hope that makes the end present here and now. Seasoned readers of Moltmann will find in these pages a capstone of a lifetime of theological exploration, while those new to his complex thought will find a concise and elegant entry point into his voluminous work.
In this deeply personal and daring meditation, eminent theologian Jürgen Moltmann challenges many closely held beliefs about the experience of dying, the nature of death, and the hope of eteal life. Moving deftly between biblical, theological, and existential domains, Moltmann argues that while we know intimately the experience of dying–both our loved ones’ dying and, ultimately, our own–death itself is a mystery. Are those who have died in fact dead? If the dead are alive, how or in what respect? When the dead awaken to eteal life, who wakes? Moltmann’s interrogations yield surprising and beautiful fruits. The living soul that awakens to eteal life is not a ghost in a machine, but the Lebensgestalt, the shape and story of a life, its human and divine contexts, its “whole.” Drawing on themes from his oeuvre’s entire arc, Resurrected to Eteal Life testifies to the inner unity of Moltmann’s theology:the cross, the Spirit, the kingdom, the end, and the hope that makes the end present here and now. Seasoned readers of Moltmann will find in these pages a capstone of a lifetime of theological exploration, while those new to his complex thought will find a concise and elegant entry point into his voluminous work.

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