The Crucified God: The Cross of Christ as the Foundation and Criticism of Christian Theology

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Fortress Press - Religion - 346 pages
"This is Jrgen Moltmann's best and therefore most important book. He has substantially changed the central thrust of his theology without sacrificing its most vital element, its passionate concern for alleviation of the world's suffering." -Langdon Gilkey "The Crucified God rewards, as it demands, the reader's patient and open-minded attention, for its theme is nothing other than the "explosive presence" of the sighting and liberating Spirit of God in the midst of human life." -The Review of Books and Religion
 

Contents

The Identity and Relevance of Faith
7
1 The Crisis of Relevance in Christian Life
8
2 The Crisis of Identity for Christian Faith
18
3 Revelation in Contradiction and Dialectic Knowledge
25
The Resistance of the Cross against its Interpretations
32
2 The Cult of the Cross
41
3 The Mysticism of the Cross
45
4 Following the Cross
53
2 Theism and the Theology of the Cross
207
3 The Theology of the Cross and Atheism
219
4 The Doctrine of Two Natures and the Suffering of Christ
227
5 Trinitarian Theology of the Cross
235
6 Beyond Theism and Atheism
249
7 Beyond Obedience and Rebellion
252
8 Trinity and Eschatology
256
9 The Experience of Human Life in the Pathos of God
267

5 The Theology of the Cross
65
Questions about Jesus
82
1 Is Jesus true God?
87
2 Is Jesus true Man?
92
3 Are you he who is to come?
98
4 Who do you say that I am?
103
The Historical Trial of Jesus
112
1 The Question of the Origin of Christology
114
2 Jesus Way to the Cross
126
The blasphemer
128
The rebel
136
The godforsaken
145
The Eschatological Trial of Jesus Christ
160
2 Jesus Resurrection from the Dead
166
3 The Significance of the Cross of the Risen Christ
178
4 The Future of God in the Sign of the Crucified Christ
187
The Crucified God
200
b The pathos of God and the sympatheia of men
270
c The fullness of life in the trinitarian history of God
274
Ways towards the Psychological Liberation of Man
291
2 Patterns of the Dialogue between Theology and Psychoanalysis
294
3 The Law of Repression
298
4 The Law of Parricide
303
5 The Principle of Illusion
308
Ways towards the Political Liberation of Man
317
2 Political Religion
321
3 Political Theology of the Cross
325
4 Vicious Circles of Death
329
5 Ways towards Liberation
332
6 The Transformations of God in the Liberations of Men
335
Abbreviations
341
Index of Names
342
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