Jürgen Moltmann

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Jürgen Moltmann in the Hospitalhof Stuttgart , March 2016

Jürgen Moltmann (born April 8, 1926 in Hamburg ) is a Protestant German theologian .

Life

Moltmann, who grew up in a secular family, was taken prisoner by the British as an air force helper at the end of the Second World War . There he "came to the Christian faith", according to his own statements, and began studying Protestant theology while still a prisoner of war , which he continued in 1948 at the University of Göttingen . There he was influenced by Hans Joachim Iwand , Gerhard von Rad and above all by Otto Weber , with whom he wrote a dissertation on the doctrine of predestination of Moyse Amyraut . From 1952 he was pastor in Bremen - Wasserhorst and student pastor , until in 1957, almost at the same time as his habilitation through Christoph Pezel , he was offered a professorship at the Wuppertal Church University . In 1963 he moved to the University of Bonn . From 1967 until his retirement in 1994 he worked as a professor for systematic theology at the Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen .

Moltmann had been married to the feminist theologian Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel , who died in 2016, since 1952 .

The theologian saw himself as left-progressive: "When, in the post-war period, Adenauer and Dibelius restored the old conditions of state and church from 1933, which Hitler had not prevented, I joined the political and church-critical successor groups of the Confessing Church." In 1978 he was a member of the Christian Peace Conference . From 1963 to 1983 he was a member of the Faith and Order Commission and from 1977 to 1993 chairman of the Society for Evangelical Theology .

In 1964, Theology of Hope appeared, the work that won him international recognition; 1972 The Crucified God , his strong Trinitarian embossed Christology ; 1975 Church in the Power of the Spirit , a doctrine of the Church which understands the Christian Church as communion in the spirit of Jesus. The three books, although they were written independently of one another, were later mostly viewed as a trilogy, each taking a theme (Easter - Good Friday - Pentecost) into the whole of Christian theology.

Together with Pinchas Lapide , he published two dialogues on the relationship between monotheism and the doctrine of the Trinity (1979) and between Israel and the Church (1980).

Between 1980 and 1995 his Systematic Contributions to Theology appeared in five volumes , in which he reworked the entire field of dogmatics :

  • Trinity and Kingdom of God. On the Doctrine of God , Munich 1980
  • God in creation. Ecological doctrine of creation , Munich 1985
  • The way of Jesus Christ. Christology in Messianic Dimensions , Munich 1989
  • The spirit of life. A holistic pneumatology , Munich 1991
  • The coming of God. Christian eschatology , Munich 1995

Moltmann published his experiences of theological thinking in 1999, like the prolegomena made up for this dogmatic draft . Ways and forms of Christian theology , a strongly autobiographical account of the foundations and methods of his theological thought. In 2006 he gave her his autobiography Weit Raum. Follow a life story .

In addition to these and other monographs, Moltmann wrote numerous essays, collected in Perspektiven der Theologie (1968), Umkehr zur Zukunft (1970), New Lifestyle. Steps to the Church (1986), God in the Modern World Project (1997), Science and Wisdom. On the conversation between science and theology (2002), “His name is justice”. New contributions to Christian doctrine of God (2008) and In the history of the Triune God. Contributions to Trinitarian theology (2010). Many of his books have been translated, including a. into English, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Dutch, Italian, Japanese and Korean.

Moltmann always sees his theology as politically responsible (in the sense of the political theology of Johann Baptist Metz , whose draft was influenced by Moltmann's theology of hope ). Those who hope cannot sleep must tackle this is his basic attitude. Hope make you active and awake.

Honors

In 1987 Moltmann was honored with the Sexau Community Prize for Theology , in 1994 with the Ernst Bloch Prize and in 2000 with the Grawemeyer Award for Religion. In 1984/85 he was allowed to hold the Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh. In 2001 he received from Prime Minister Erwin Teufel , the Medal of Merit of the State of Baden-Wuerttemberg . On his 80th birthday he was awarded the "Moldavian Cross" by the then Orthodox Archbishop and Metropolitan of Moldova and Bukovina , Daniel Ciobotea .

From a total of 15 universities (including University of St Andrews , Katholieke Universiteit Leuven , University of Nottingham , Alexandru Ioan Cuza University , Duke University , Emory University and University of Pretoria ), he received the honorary doctorate .

student

Jürgen Moltmann has supervised numerous dissertations and habilitations. His student group includes:

His assistants in Tübingen included Karl-Adolf Bauer , Gerhard Marcel Martin , Reiner Strunk and Rudolf Weth .

Works

  • Covenant of grace and choice of grace: Moyse Amyraut's doctrine of predestination, presented in the context of the salvation-historical-federal theological tradition of the Academy of Saumur , Göttingen 1951, DNB 480287031 ( dissertation Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , Theological Faculty, April 14, 1952).
  • Christoph Pezel (1539-1604) and Calvinism in Bremen (= Hospitium ecclesiae . Volume 2). Einkehr, Bremen 1958, DNB 480673896 ( Habilitation thesis Georg-August-Universität Göttingen February 27, 1957).
  • The church on the horizon of Christ's lordship . Neukirchen-Vluyn 1959.
  • Theology of hope. Investigations into the justification and consequences of a Christian eschatology. Gütersloh: Gütersloh publishing house 2005 (first edition 1964)
  • The crucified god. The cross of Christ as the basis and critique of Christian theology. Gütersloh: Gütersloh publishing house 2002 (first edition 1972)
  • Church in the power of the Spirit. A contribution to messianic ecclesiology. Gütersloh: Gütersloh publishing house 2010 (first edition 1975)
  • Trinity and Kingdom of God. To the doctrine of God. Gütersloh: Gütersloh publishing house 1986 (first edition 1980)
  • God in creation. Ecological creation theory. Gütersloh: Gütersloh Publishing House 2015 (first edition 1985)
  • The way of Jesus Christ. Christology in Messianic Dimensions. Gütersloh: Gütersloh publishing house 1989
  • The spirit of life. A holistic pneumatology. Gütersloh: Gütersloh publishing house 2010 (first edition 1991)
  • The coming of God. Christian eschatology. Gütersloh: Gütersloh publishing house 1995
  • Science and wisdom. On the conversation between science and theology. Gütersloh: Gütersloh publishing house 2002
  • Wide space. A life story. Gütersloh: Gütersloh publishing house 2006
  • Ethics of hope. Gütersloh: Gütersloh Publishing House 2010
  • The living God and the fullness of life. Also a contribution to the atheism debate of our time. Gütersloh: Gütersloh Publishing House 2014
  • About patience, mercy and solidarity. Gütersloh: Gütersloh Publishing House 2018
  • Christian renewals in difficult times. Munich: Claudius 2019
  • Risen to Eternal Life. Gütersloh: Gütersloh Publishing House 2020

literature

  • Richard Bauckham : The Theology of Jürgen Moltmann. T&T Clark: Edinburgh 1995.
  • Miroslav Volf (Ed.): The Future of Theology: Essays in Honor of Jürgen Moltmann . Eerdmans: Grand Rapids (MI), 1996.
  • Geiko Müller-Fahrenholz: Fantasy for the Kingdom of God: Jürgen Moltmann's theology, an introduction . Gütersloh 2000
  • Geiko Müller-Fahrenholz: Jürgen Moltmann. In God's liberation story . In: Carsten Barwasser (ed.): Theologies of the present. An introduction . Darmstadt 2006, pp. 159–178
  • Michael Welker, Miroslav Volf (eds.): The living God as a Trinity: Jürgen Moltmann for his 80th birthday . Gütersloher Verlagshaus 2006. ISBN 978-3-579-05229-8 .
  • Jürgen Moltmann, Eckart Löhr: Hope for an unfinished world. Jürgen Moltmann in conversation with Eckart Löhr . Patmos Verlag, Ostfildern 2016, ISBN 978-3-8436-0755-1 .

Web links

References and comments

  1. ↑ Jürgen Moltmann: What does "Protestant" mean today? From the doctrine of justification to the theology of the Kingdom of God. In: Evangelische Theologie 57 (1997), pp. 41–46, here 41.
  2. ↑ Jürgen Moltmann: What does "Protestant" mean today? From the doctrine of justification to the theology of the Kingdom of God. In: Evangelische Theologie 57 (1997), pp. 41–46, here 41.
  3. ↑ http://www.br.de/radio/bayern2/sendung/evangelische-perspektiven/hoffnung-als-treibstoff-des-lebens-100  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically defective marked. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.br.de  
  4. ↑ Report in Uni-Protocols of December 3, 1999
  5. ↑ List of medal recipients 1975–2019. (PDF; 180 kB) State Ministry of Baden-Württemberg, p. 46 , accessed on June 12, 2019 .
  6. ^ Announcement on WCC website, accessed April 6, 2017
  7. ^ Theologian celebrates his 90th birthday. A celebration for Jürgen Moltmann , Weser Kurier April 14, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Moltmann, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Protestant theologian
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg