Sun of righteousness, arise! : God's future for humanity and the earth /
JuÌrgen Moltmann ; translated by Margaret Kohl.
- 1st Fortress Press ed.
- Minneapolis, MN : Fortress Press, 2010.
- x, 254 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Translated from the German: Sein Name ist Gerechtigkeit: neue BeitraÌge zur christlichen Gotteslehre. GuÌtersloh : GuÌtersloher Verlagshaus, 2008.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 225-247) and index.
Part I: The future of Christianity -- The Christian World -- The Primal European Catastrophe and the End of Modern Christendom -- The Rebirth of the Church -- Three Paradigms for the Church -- Hope for the Kingdom of God -- Part II: The God of Resurrection: Christ's Resurrection; the Resurrection of the body; the Resurrection of nature -- In the End the Beginning -- The Legacy of Our Time: Progress and Catastrophe -- Resurrection: The Acknowledgment of Christ and Belief in God -- The Raising of Jesus -- The Disciples' Crucified Hope for the Future -- The Women's Shaken Belief in Death -- The Appearances of the Risen Christ -- The Touchable yet Untouched Body of Christ -- The New Being of the Risen Christ -- The Resurrection of the Body -- Resurrectio carnis? -- The Eschatological Moment -- A New Spirituality of the Senses -- The Resurrection of Nature: The New Creation of All Things -- Resurrection: The Meaning of Nature -- Matter with Future -- The 'Resurrection of Nature' -- Life against Death -- God's Kingdom is the Kingdom of the Resurrection on Earth -- The Kingdom of God on Earth -- Resurrection against Death -- Part III: God is righteousness and justice -- No Monotheism Is like Another: The Dissolution of an Inappropriate Term -- A Primal or Ur-Monotheism? -- Was There Covenant Monotheism in Israel? -- Trinitarian 'Monotheism' in Christianity? -- Is the Islamic Belief in God Pure Monotheism? -- Monotheism: Exclusive or Inclusive? -- Shekinah: The Mystery of God's Presence in Judaism and Christianity -- The Question: Where Is God? -- Shekinah Theology in Scripture -- The Interpretation of the Shekinah in Contemporary Literature -- Shekinah Theology in the New Testament -- Christ: Companion on the Way and Fellow Sufferer -- Psalm 82: Righteousness and Justice ; The Measure of the Gods -- The Assembly of the Gods -- YHWH Calls the Gods to Repent -- YHWH's Righteousness That Brings about Justice -- The Poor and the Earth -- The Mortality of the Gods -- Sun of Righteousness: The Gospel about Judgment and the New Creation of All Things -- Justice in Mesopotamia, Egypt and Israel -- The Last Judgment according to Christian Tradition: The Final Reckoning -- The Sunrise of Christ's Righteousness and Justice -- Dialectical Universalism -- Postscript about the Universal Theology of Grace and the Particularist Theology of Faith and the Universal Glorification of God -- The Triune God -- The New Trinitarian Thinking -- Perichoresis -- The Trinitarian Experience of God -- The Trinitarian Experience of Community -- Trinitarian Experiences of Space -- Face to Face: A Meditation on the Seeing of God -- The Human Senses -- Knowing and Loving -- Wondering and Seeing -- Face to Face -- 'The Lord Spoke to Moses Face to Face as a Man Speaks to His Friend' -- 'Now We See in a Glass Dimly, but Then Face to Face. Now I Know in Part but Then I Shall Know Even as I Am Known' -- The Contemplation of God and God's Presence in All Things -- Part IV: God in nature -- Natural Science and the Hermeneutics of Nature -- Do We Understand What We Know? -- The Idea of the Two Books: Holy Scripture and 'the Book of Nature' -- The General Doctrine of Signs: Signatura rerum or the Signature of All Things -- The Theological Doctrine of Signs -- The World as Nature and as Creation: Theological Interpretative Patterns -- The Sighs of the Divine Spirit in All Things and All People -- The Theory of Evolution and Christian Theology: From 'the War of Nature' to Natural Cooperation and from 'the Struggle for Existence' to Mutual Recognition -- Charles Darwin and 'Natural Selection as Affecting Civilized Nations' -- Possibilities of Artificial Selection: Eugenic Projects -- The Neurobiological Thesis: At the Centre of Biology Is Mutual Relationship and Cooperation' -- The Genesis of More Complex Forms of Life -- The World in Its Becoming: The Future in Its Coming.