A Broad Place: An AutobiographyAmong the most acclaimed and accomplished theologians of the last 100 years, Jurgen Moltmann is also one of the most popular. This autobiography will certainly be widely read in the churches and the academy and will shed light on the intellectual development of this enormously influential theologian. He has marked the history of theology after the Second World War in Europe and North America like no other. He is the most widely read, quoted, and translated theologian of our time. Now, after Jurgen Moltmann has celebrated his eightieth birthday, he looks back on a life engaged in and forging a Christian response to the tumult and opportunities of our time. In his autobiography Jurgen Moltmann tells his life story, from the Hamburg youth in the "alternative" parental home up to the present moment, and he reflects on the journey of his own theological development and creativity. A wide-ranging document alert to the deeper currents of his time and ours, A Broad Place is an entertaining reconsideration of a life full of intense experience and new beginnings. |
Contents
The Settlement | 3 |
Operation Gomorrah | 13 |
Prisoner of War 194547 | 19 |
Theology Student in Göttingen 194852 | 39 |
Pastor in Wasserhorst 195358 | 53 |
The Church Seminary in Wuppertal 195864 | 71 |
Public Theology | 82 |
The Theology of Hope 1964 | 97 |
Ways to the Far East 1973 and 1975 | 176 |
The Crucified God 1972 | 189 |
The New Trinitarian Thinking | 285 |
Our Long Walk to China 1985 | 302 |
Joint Theology with Elisabeth | 321 |
New Love for Life | 334 |
The Festival of the End and the Beginning | 355 |
New Emphases | 364 |
The ChristianMarxist Dialogue | 119 |
My American Dream | 131 |
A First Beginning in Tübingen 1967 | 147 |
A Second Beginning in Tübingen | 159 |
Lecture Tours Worldwide 196975 | 165 |
Postscript | 381 |
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