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Experiences in Theology: Ways and Forms of Christian Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

Theology always has been, and is for Moltmann, not an abstract or otherworldly endeavor, but one nourished by, and responsive to, experiences in and with life itself. In this volume, the final in his series of Beiträge (systematic “contributions” to theology), Moltmann revisits the landmarks of his own theological journey. He examines those intersections of his own life with contemporary events...

career. The more they adopt academic theology and make it their own, the greater their difficulty later in bridging the broad gulf between the ‘educated’ and the ‘uneducated’ in their congregations. Over against this academic theology, a ‘congregational theology’ has long since developed everywhere. This is certain that it is closer to the Bible, because the prophets and apostles were not learned theologians either.2 This is ‘popular’ theology—the theology of the people. These two theologies, the
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