whole cultural, social, and religious systems of coercion, that is, a freedom to live defenselessly. Moltmann calls on the left wing of the Reformation to clarify this freedom as an eschatological realism over against the paradoxical realism of the Lutheran and the triumphalist realism of the Reformed ethic. The last section of the book is unified around the theme of the promise and threat to human dignity represented by religion, especially the messianic religion of Western Christianity. Human dignity