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...Church in the Power of the Spirit, by the Rev. Jürgen Moltmann (Harper & Row; 401 pages; $15). Germany is to Christian theology what France is to wine, and Moltmann, 51, a colleague of Küng's at the University of Tubingen, is one of its most eminent Protestant thinkers. Moltmann's first major work, The Theology of Hope (1964), based on the somewhat neglected promise of Christ's coming reign in a kingdom of righteousness, was a ringing call to optimism and activism during the days of "God is dead" theology. Then...
...least a century, German and Germanic theologians have dominated Protestant thought. In the current generation, the two acknowledged theological stars are Tübingen's Jürgen Moltmann and Munich's Wolfhart Pannenberg. Moltmann, of Theology of Hope fame, has been the better known and the more popular, especially among Protestant social reformers. Pannenberg is still largely unknown outside the tight little world of religious scholars. But, says John Cobb of California's School of Theology at Claremont, he "is fairly widely recognized to have published more substantive work in theology in the past decade" than...
...CRUCIFIED GOD, by Jürgen Moltmann (Harper & Row; 346 pages; $10). Even when he was lecturing in the U.S. after publication of his Theology of Hope in 1967, this German Protestant theologian offered no vision of an easily won future: behind the hope of Christ's Resurrection, he insisted, lay the dark courage of the Crucifixion. Now Moltmann takes a long, measured look at the God who became man and an outlaw, "a scandal to the devout and a disturber of the peace in the eyes of the mighty." Learnedly and often ardently written, The Crucified...
...black Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa, a steady voice for racial equality "whom Rhodesia's black people have learned to trust"; and David Du Plessis, globetrotting apostle of the fast-spreading, transdenominational Pentecostal movement. The editors reserved some of their highest praise for German Theologian Jürgen Moltmann, a Reformed thinker whom they call "the most dominant theological presence of our time." They find that Moltmann's rigorous but essentially optimistic thought (The Theology of Hope; Religion, Revolution and the Future) offers "a hope for the present and future life to victims of today's chaotic world...
Braden ends up, like John Gardner, with unfashionable expressions of hope, quoting the German theologian Jiirgen Moltmann's The Theology of Hope. If the present looks grim, well, maybe−just maybe−there's the future. He settles for the progressive slogan, "Say no to the given and yes to the new." He gambles, as a humanist, that if runaway technology can be slowed down, it will somehow come out evolution rather than revolution...