We still need the coming of God

The article underscores and explores the conversion of Jürgen Moltmann as a departure point for considering the importance of conversion for ministers and theological educators today. Through summary of a 2016 untranslated essay from Moltmann, “Hoffen und Denken,” comparison showing how the intellec...

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Main Author: Liu, Gerald C. 1978- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: [2017]
In: Theology today
Year: 2017, Volume: 74, Issue: 1, Pages: 49-56
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history
KBM Asia
KDD Protestant Church
Further subjects:B Theology
B US apology
B Anti-semitism
B Kiyoshi Tanimoto
B Nazi
B Friedrich Hölderlin
B Jürgen Moltmann
B Hiroshima
B Martin Heidegger
B Conversion
B World War II
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Summary:The article underscores and explores the conversion of Jürgen Moltmann as a departure point for considering the importance of conversion for ministers and theological educators today. Through summary of a 2016 untranslated essay from Moltmann, “Hoffen und Denken,” comparison showing how the intellectual work from Moltmann and Martin Heidegger arise and mature as divergent responses to World War II, and reflection upon Kiyoshi Tanimoto, a Hiroshima survivor and Japanese Methodist Minister who graduated from Candler School of Theology and went on to found International World Peace Day, the article traces why conversion matters as an elemental beginning for Christian theological thinking and practice. In order to ground the line of argumentation within a wider context of US political and ecclesial reform, the article also brings special attention to the need for ministers and theological educators to repent for the United States’ nuclear bombings of World War II.
ISSN:2044-2556
Contains:Enthalten in: Theology today
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1177/0040573616688733