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God for a Secular Society: The Public Relevance of Theology is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this masterful analysis of the religious and political dilemmas at the end of the modern age, world-renowned theologian Jürgen Moltmann assays the vaulting dreams and colossal failures of our time. He asks how we came to this point, and he argues strenuously for Christian discipleship and public theology that take sides. In both critical and creative ways he advances the specific relevance of...

the nations, the future of humanity, the future of all living things and the future of the earth, on which and from which everything that is here lives. In the biblical writings ‘the kingdom of God’ is the broadest, most comprehensive horizon of hope for the general well-being of the world. If the church is only one historical form of God’s coming kingdom, then theology cannot be merely a function of the church, and must not confine itself to offering what Schleiermacher (in the German title to his
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