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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...

of Christ and the experience of the Spirit to the future of the kingdom. It is in the eschatological symbol of the kingdom of God that the future of Scripture is formulated, and that also means the unity of Old and New Testaments. The search for a ‘centre of scripture’ began when, with the Reformation, scripture became ‘the preceptress’ of church and theology. The Reformers, with Luther, found that centre in ‘what furthers—what ferments—Christ’ (‘was Christum treibet’),87 and found it not only in
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