Quotes from Jurgen Moltmann

The history of the kings is the story of how those who had been anointed failed to live up to that anointing. It is this fact alone that can explain the rise of messianism: belief in the anointed one who will fulfil his anointing.' 14

As the Christ for all human beings, Jesus takes hold of our divided and peaceless human society at its lowest point, among the miserable, the despised and the unimportant.

Life without passion is a poor thing.

Gegenwärtiges und Zukünftiges, Erfahrung und Hoffnung treten in der christlichen Eschatologie in Widerspruch zueinander, so daß durch sie dem Menschen nicht Entsprechung und Einstimmigkeit mit dem Gegebenen zuteil wird, sondern er in den Widerstreit von Hoffnung und Erfahrung hineingezogen wird.

The question about the end bursts out of the torment of history and the intolerableness of historical existence.

If it were merely sin that existed, and not the resulting transience as well, contrition would be appropriate', said Athanasius, and goes on: `But God becomes human and subjects himself to "the law of death" so as to take away death's power over human beings and his creation, and in order to bring immortality to light.'16

But we cannot make whatever encompasses us an object without moving out of it. We do not see the eyes we see with. We cannot perceive the place where we are standing unless we leave it.

In the New Testament, Christ's 'virgin birth' is related only by Luke and Matthew. It was unknown, or considered unimportant, in wide areas of early Christian belief (the Pauline and Johannine sectors, for example). But from the third century onwards it became a firm component of the Christian creeds and theological christologies.

In its final words The Spirit of Utopia expresses the new symbiosis of Jewish commandment and modern will: `Only the wicked exist through their God; but the righteous - God exists through them

Las parábolas tomadas de la naturaleza hacen que el reino de Dios apele a todos los sentidos. Huelo una rosa y huelo el reino de Dios. Gusto del pan y del vino y gusto del reino de Dios. Camino por un colorido campo en flor y palpo el reino en el que todo puede crecer y desarrollarse, el reino en el que hay suficiente para todos".

the triune God will indwell the world in a divine way - the world will indwell God in a creaturely way.

As far as we have any historical information on the subject, the public history of Jesus began when he was about thirty years old (Luke 3.23), with John the Baptist.

on the other hand, the Constantinian imperial churches condemned early Christian millenarianism only because they saw themselves in the Christian imperium as `the holy rule' of Christ's Thousand Years' empire. So every future hope for a different, alternative kingdom of Christ was feared and condemned as heresy.

The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty

The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.