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“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...

It is therefore Christ’s resurrection from the dead which reveals the saving significance of his death on the cross.14 Moreover the resurrection does not mean only that God ‘identifies’ himself with the crucified Jesus. The resurrection is a separate and special act of God’s,15 through which the new world of eternal life is thrown open for the victims and perpetrators of evil. For the resurrection of Christ is not exclusively his private affair. Rather, he has been raised inclusively, as the head
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