May 2010
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Theology of Hope -- Page by Page
When reading Moltmann’s autobiography this afternoon, I came across this wonderful recounting of determination and faithfulness. “After the last Christian-Marxist conference in Marienbad in 1968, the censorship office decided that ‘works written by the West German theologian Jurgen Moltmann are in the future to be put on the index of prohibited books’; the relevant customs...
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Finitum Non Capax Infiniti: Considering Barth’s...
Sitting under an apple tree in Safenwil, Switzerland, the young pastor Karl Barth began a commentary on Paul’s Epistle to the Romans — a commentary that would “fall like a bomb on the playground of the theologians.” (1) No doubt this brings to mind the café in Frederiksberg, Copenhagen, where Johannes Climacus (or perhaps Søren Kierkegaard in masque) determined, “Out of love for...
