Christian Theology and Its Problems Today -- "Where There Is Hope, There Is Religion" -- Ernst Bloch and Hope without Faith -- Introduction to the "Theology of Hope" -- Jewish and Christian Messianism -- The Crucified God and the Apathetic Man -- Dostoevsky and the Hope of Prisoners -- Political Theology -- The Ethic of Calvinism -- Racism and the Right to Resist -- The Theological Basis of Human Rights and of the Liberation of Human Beings -- The Humanity of Living and Dying -- Bringing Peace to a Divided World -- On Hope as an Experiment: A Postlude
In the past decade–as fada in theology have come gone– the work of Jürgen Moltmann has assumed a position of enduring vitality. Theology of Hope, Man, and The Crucified God have formed watershed which supplies one of the very few viable theologies still relevant to practice of Christians in the world. The fourteen essays in this book have lasting value in that they portray the development of the author's thought in relation to our ever-changing historical and social situation. Theology, ethics, philosophy of religion, and politics coalesce as the author raises the basic issue of our time.