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In the End—The Beginning: The Life of Hope is unavailable, but you can change that!

“In my end is my beginning,'” wrote T. S. Eliot, and Jürgen Moltmann’s new book is a powerful testament to personal hope in chaotic, even catastrophic times. As Moltmann’s award-winning volume The Coming of God laid out the systematic framework of eschatology (the doctrine of the “last things”), so here he explores the personal meaning of that fundamental affirmation for Christians. Debunking...

promise’. We shall see what this orientation towards the future has to say to us in a world of the ancestor cult, of patriarchies and matriarchies. We shall then see how this special promise of the messianic child who is to redeem the world is reflected in the context of life in general, and shall try to discover what ‘the promise of the child’ means for all of us. ‘To us a child is born’, proclaims the prophet Isaiah to his people who are ‘walking in darkness’ (Isa. 9:6, 9:2). The destruction of
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