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A Broad Place: An Autobiography is unavailable, but you can change that!

Jürgen Moltmann’s life and work have marked the theological history since WWII like no other. He is the most widely read, quoted, and translated German theologian of our time. Now, after celebrating his eightieth birthday, he looks back on a life that has been engaged in forging a Christian response to the tumult and opportunities of our age. In his autobiography Moltmann tells his compelling...

of the crucified Christ and reaches out towards the promises of Christ’s universal future.’ Life in the presence of the Coming One was indeed a link between me and the Swabian Pietists, but what for me was alien was their stress on the salvation of the individual soul, and their quiescent eschatology, with its conservative political consequences. As early as 1959, in opposition to ‘theology in the sphere of the consciousness’ from Schleiermacher to Bultmann, I had invoked the two Blumhardts: ‘Contrary
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