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This collection of provocative essays by one of the world’s most distinguished theologians deals with diverse topics, covering the right to work, nuclear war, the Olympic Games, Lutheran and Reformed political thought, and the “common hope” of Judaism and Christianity—all within the framework of human rights. Jürgen Moltmann believes that the dignity of the human being is the source for all human...

the regnum mundi. Gerhard Ebeling has, with Karl Barth, fittingly characterized this relationship as “contradiction and correspondence.” The contradictory relationship is in view when the regnum mundi as regnum diaboli or as civitas Babylonica stands over against the regnum Christi. The relationship of correspondence is in view when the regnum mundi as creative, earthly, and temporal world points to the coming eternal kingdom of God.9 Believing human beings relate to themselves in the same way. As
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