Publication

2015 - Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville, KY, Kentucky

Language

English

Word Count

57,250 words, Guess

Page Count

229 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780664261610
  • Open LibraryOL30399726M

Classifications

  • DDC233
  • LCCBT701.3 .M6513 2015
  • LCCBV4817

Description

Modern humanity has accepted a truncated, impoverished definition of life. Focusing solely on material realities, we have forgotten that joy, purpose, and meaning come from a life that is both immersed in the temporal and alive to the transcendent. We have, in other words, ceased to live in God. In this book, renowned theologian Jürgen Moltmann shows us what that life of joy and purpose looks like. Describing how we came to live in a world devoid of the ultimate, he charts a way back to an intimate connection with the biblical God. He counsels that we adopt a "theology of life," an orientation that sees God at work in both the mundane and the extraordinary and that pushes us to work for a world that fully reflects the life of its Creator. Moltmann offers a telling critique of the shallow values of consumerist society and provides a compelling rationale for why spiritual sensibilities and encounter with God must lie at the heart of any life that seeks to be authentically human.

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