<p> Jürgen Moltmann's trilogy-Theology of Hope, The Crucified God, and The Church in the Power of the Spirit-is pervaded by the concept of "contradiction." Secondary literature commonly alludes to his theology of contradiction, describing his theology as "dialectical," but the literature rarely analyzes it comprehensively. This thesis seeks to fill this lack. It argues that in Moltmann's trilogy God creates and fosters in the world three different types of contradiction (objective, subjective and active) through three different means (God's promises, his crucifixion, and the work of his Spirit in and through the Church) in order to accomplish his purposes. The inductive sections of the thesis show that contradiction exists in nearly every chapter of each book. The systematic sections show contradiction is central to the main systematic theological topics of the trilogy. Understanding Moltmann's theology of contradiction this way allows for clearer interpretation of his theology as a whole.</p> / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

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Dans L’espérance oubliée Jacques Ellul parle d’espérance comme à la fois une réponse de la part de l’être humain au silence de Dieu et une « présence éclatante des réalités dernières ». A travers le dialogue avec entre autres Paul Ricoeur et Søren Kierkegaard, en passant par Moltmann, Castelli et André Neher, notre auteur en présente les enjeux de jugement théologique sur notre situation historique, de critique envers la « déréliction » qui habite la société technicienne, et de choix fondamental pour une éthique de liberté et de non-puissance. Notre travail vise non seulement une lecture analytique de la pensée d’Ellul sur l’espérance et de sa réception, mais aussi un examen approfondi de la dialectique interne à la théologie de notre auteur ainsi qu’un travail de mise en perspective de deux axes thématiques : la prophétie et l’eschaton. Notre conviction est que le discours théologique sur l’espérance présenté par Ellul peut apporter des contributions cruciales à la théologie de notre temps. / In Hope in times of abandonment Jacques Ellul talks about hope as a human reaction to God’s silence as well as a “bright presence of the ultimate realities” in the present. Through the dialogue with Paul Ricoeur and Søren Kierkegaard, passing through Moltmann, Castelli and André Neher, our author introduces its challenges: as a theological judgement on our historical situation, a critic to the “abandonment” which inhabits the technological society and a fundamental choice towards an ethics of freedom and of non-power. Our aim is to present not only an analytic reading of Ellul’s statements on hope, but also of the inner dialectic of his theology, leading to a perspective setting upon two main topics: prophecy and eschaton. We are convinced that Jacques Ellul’s theological discourse on hope can bring crucial contributions to the theology of our time.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T14:27:25Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Francisco Arcanjo da Silva.pdf: 1481200 bytes, checksum: 1fb0a85bbb96e822eab762e7ec38c4d0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-09-11 / At the thought of Jürgen Moltmann, this research develops an approach to the theology of the cross, giving the cross as Trinitarian event. In his Trinity and the Kingdom of God works , Moltmann interprets an open Trinitarian doctrine. Doctrine sensitive to history with its vicissitudes, falls and uplifting, aches and cross. The understanding of Christian dogma is central, because it is the essence of the Christian faith. In The Crucified God , expressed radical love of God that is understood in its pathos revealed in Jesus Christ, presented in the understanding of crucifixion as an inner Trinitarian event between the Father and the Son, where what happens on the cross was an event between God and God. This work also permeates the entire dissertation. The Kingdom of God, radical content of the Trinitarian theology of Moltmann, appears on the Christology of the Way of Jesus Christ. The reflection made this book points out the route of the Father, the Son, is in the story, and the path of history that in Christ, God intended for. This approach explains the uniqueness of the Christian God who creates saves and sanctifies man and all creation. In The Spirit of Life , Moltmann develops his pneumatology. It is stated that in His Spirit, God is not outside but within the human heart and their experiences. Also develops an eschatology that read in Trinitarian perspective points the future as the reality that illuminates the past and the present of history and life. Hence the fellowship with Christ means suffering and active participation in the history of God. Your criterion is the story of the crucified and risen Christ. It is, in this approach, a hermeneutic thought of Jürgen Moltmann. The main objective is to demonstrate the theology of the cross in his Trinitarian view showing the cross of Christ as the foundation and criticism of Christian theology / A partir do pensamento de Jürgen Moltmann, esta pesquisa desenvolve uma abordagem sobre a Teologia da Cruz, atribuindo a cruz como evento trinitário. Em sua obra Trindade e Reino de Deus, Moltmann interpreta uma doutrina trinitária aberta. Doutrina sensível à história com as suas vicissitudes, quedas e soerguimentos, dores e cruz. A compreensão da dogmática cristã é central, pois, trata-se do essencial da fé cristã. Em O Deus crucificado, expressa radicalidade do amor de Deus que se entende sob o seu pathos revelado em Jesus Cristo, apresentado na compreensão da crucificação como um acontecimento trinitário interior entre o Pai e o Filho, onde o que acontece na cruz foi um acontecimento entre Deus e Deus. Esta obra perpassa toda a dissertação. O Reino de Deus, conteúdo radical da teologia trinitária de Moltmann, aparece na cristologia do Caminho de Jesus Cristo. A reflexão feita nesse livro aponta o itinerário do Pai que, no Filho, vem ao encontro da história, e o caminho da história que, em Cristo, se destina para Deus. Esta abordagem explicita a singularidade do Deus cristão que cria salva e santifica o homem e toda a criação. Em O Espírito da Vida, Moltmann desenvolve sua pneumatologia. Afirma-se que no seu Espírito, Deus nunca está fora, mas dentro do coração humano e em suas experiências. Desenvolve-se ainda uma escatologia que, lida em perspectivas trinitárias, aponta o futuro como a realidade que ilumina o passado e o presente da história e da vida. Donde a irmandade com Cristo significa o sofrimento e a participação ativa na história deste Deus. Seu critério é a história do Cristo crucificado e ressuscitado. Encontra-se, nessa abordagem, uma hermenêutica do pensamento de Jürgen Moltmann. O objetivo principal é demonstrar a teologia da cruz em sua perspectiva trinitária, apresentando a cruz de Cristo como base e crítica da teologia cristã

Submitted by Renata Lopes (renatasil82@gmail.com) on 2016-02-16T10:52:42Z No. of bitstreams: 1 matteoricciardi.pdf: 683813 bytes, checksum: 37713ad659c41cf8faee5a8eff4ec63b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Adriana Oliveira (adriana.oliveira@ufjf.edu.br) on 2016-02-26T12:31:45Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 matteoricciardi.pdf: 683813 bytes, checksum: 37713ad659c41cf8faee5a8eff4ec63b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2016-02-26T12:31:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 matteoricciardi.pdf: 683813 bytes, checksum: 37713ad659c41cf8faee5a8eff4ec63b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-08-29 / O tema deste trabalho é a ecoteologia de Jürgen Moltmann, tendo como objetivo principal desvendar o caráter dialógico intrínseco das suas formulações. Para tanto será realizada uma pesquisa bibliográfica das principais obras do autor sobre a temática, enriquecendo o estudo com a contribuição de outros pensadores que, a partir de suas próprias premissas, apontam para soluções análogas. As três partes que compõem o trabalho compreendem: a discussão a respeito da ação criadora de Deus, sua presença na criação e o papel da humanidade; a expectativa escatológica para o futuro de Deus e da criação, segundo o Cristo cósmico, o Schabbat e a doutrina da pericórese; a apresentação de soluções para o mundo contemporâneo através da teologia pública, da ética ecológica e da mística da criação. Por meio da indagação realizada, os resultados deste escrito elucidam a possibilidade de assumir os postulados do autor em direção a outras tradições religiosas apresentando a conclusão desta investigação bibliográfica: as perspectivas de diálogo da ecoteologia de Jürgen Moltmann. / The theme of this paper is Jürgen Moltmann’s eco-theology, with the primary objective to unveil the intrinsic dialogical character of his formulations. For this purpose, it will be held a bibliographic research of the major works of the author on the subject, enriching the study with the contribution of other thinkers who, from their own postulations, point to similar solutions. The three parts that make up the work include: a discussion about the creative action of God, his presence in creation and humanity's role; the eschatological expectancy for the future of God and creation, according to the cosmic Christ, the Schabbat and the doctrine of perichoresis; the presentation of solutions to the contemporary world through the public theology, the ecological ethics and the mystical of creation. Through the inquiry conducted, the results of this writing elucidate the possibility of assuming the author’s postulates toward other religious traditions by presenting the conclusion of this bibliographic research: the prospects for dialogue of Jürgen Moltmann’s eco-theology.

The aim of this study is to explore questions regarding the concept of suffering and the relationship between a suffering world and a suffering God. The theology of Dorothee Soelle and Jürgen Moltmann are presented and then analysed through the feminist-theological lens of Rita Nakashima Brock and Rebecca Ann Parker. The feminist-theological perspective is used to highlight the theological strengths and weaknesses of Soelle and Moltmann. The issues of suffering can be found all through human history and across all religious views or life stances. Soelle and Moltmann show that to create a sustainable theology regarding suffering there needs to be an awareness of what image of God is presented. The conclusion of the study is that both Soelle and Moltmann use the term “apathy” throughout the theology that has been presented. The concept is regarded as a hindrance to forming and maintaining relationships and being able to sympathise with the suffering party. This hinderance is present both in the relationships between humans and between God and humanity. The focus of Soelle and Moltmann lies in the interpretation of God the Father and how the Father relates to the suffering of humanity. The importance of how the suffering of the Son is regarded is presented through the feminist theology of Brock and Parker. According to Brock and Parker, the church needs to examine how the suffering of Jesus is presented. If the suffering of Jesus is presented as an example of how suffering should be endured then the concept of Jesus willingly suffering might put pressure on the suffering individual to stay in the context that causes suffering.

[pt] A pandemia instaurou não apenas uma nova maneira de se portar diante das questões sanitárias e de saúde pública, mas possibilitou vislumbrar cenários pandêmicos nos mais diversos setores da sociedade. A crise sanitária se transportou para uma crise humanitária e, assim, desvelando os lados obscuros de um mundo que parece caminhar para sua derrocada, em rota de colisão consigo mesmo. A partir do cenário pandêmico e suas consequências, a questão que nos impulsiona será a esperança e como ela nos moverá para um mundo (pós) pandêmico e, por sua vez, pavimentar o terreno que nossos pés tocarão para seguir em direção a uma realidade que desautorize as pérfidas e mórbidas perspectivas desse mundo (pós) pandêmico. A metodologia a seguir se realiza por meio da bibliografia escolhida e com ampla adesão de escritos do autor em questão. Os capítulos perpassam pelos diversos cenários pandêmicos, a apresentação da teologia moltmanniana e seu intercambiar com o pensamento de Ernst Bloch, o filósofo da esperança; em seguida, a contribuição da teologia de Jürgen Moltmann ao mundo (pós) pandêmico, a sua contrapartida provocadora de esperança e vitalidade ao cenário. A nossa pesquisa, mediada pela escatologia de Jürgen Moltmann, tem como objetivo suscitar a esperança vivificante no Ressuscitado, os horizontes de vida que irriga os terrenos áridos de nossa existência, que por muitas vezes, se condiciona aos noticiários e aos anúncios de um mundo em franca destruição. / [en] The pandemic not only established a new way of dealing with health and public health issues, but also made it possible to envision pandemic scenarios in the most diverse sectors of society. The health crisis has become a humanitarian crisis, thus revealing the dark sides of a world that seems to be heading towards its downfall, on a collision course with itself. From the pandemic scenario and its consequences, the question that drives us will be hope and how it will move us towards a (post) pandemic world and, in turn, pave the ground that our feet will touch to move towards a reality that disavow the perfidious and morbid perspectives of this (post) pandemic world. The following methodology is carried out through the chosen bibliography and with a wide range of writings by the author in question. The chapters go through the different pandemic scenarios, the presentation of Moltmann s theology and its exchange with the thought of Ernst Bloch, the philosopher of hope, then the contribution of Jürgen Moltmann s theology to the (post) pandemic world, its provocative counterpart of hope and vitality to the scene. Our research, mediated by Jürgen Moltmann s eschatology, aims to raise life-giving hope in the Resurrected One, the horizons of life that irrigate the arid terrains of our existence, which are often conditioned by the news and announcements of a world in frank destruction.

In the New Testament and in the early church fathers’ writings, the Son is understood to be ontologically equal to the Father and subordinate to him. Whether understood as ingenerate-generate, sender-sent, commanded-obedient, subordination shows the distinction between the Father and Son. As seen in church history, minimizing these distinctions can lead to modalism and pressing them too far leads to Arianism. In the Bible, obedience or subordination does not mean ontologically inferior. Rather, obedience results from faith and love. Although some fathers connected obedience to Christ’s humanity, they were doing so while rejecting the Arian argument that the Son’s obedience meant he was ontologically inferior. They affirmed the voluntary obedience of the Son as an expression of his love for the Father and rejected any sense of coercion or determinism. The doctrine of the eternal generation of the Son from the Father’s ousia held together the equality and subordination of the Son to the Father. Beginning with Christ’s atoning work rather than metaphysics, P. T. Forsyth and Jürgen Moltmann believe that the Son’s obedience is crucial for the atonement to be the free act of grace of the Sovereign God. Because of this, the Son’s obedience must be divine, and thus eternal. Otherwise, the obedience would be from Christ’s humanity, and humanity would contribute in inappropriate ways to the atonement. They also believe that subordination, obedience, humility, and servanthood complete the understanding of divine love. The unity provided by the same divine love is expressed according to the particularity of the Person. In the Trinitarian relationship, the Son’s eternal obedience is his free response to the Father. Here subordination is not oppression, but perfect love freely given to the perfect Lover. This fuller conception of divine love that a proper emphasis on obedience affords has great potential to help Trinitarain theology contribute to the elimination of oppression and the improvement of human relationships and to do so in a manner consistent with the biblical witness.

This project revisits the work of Nikolai Berdiaev, one of the first Russian Silver Age religious philosophers to be widely read in the West. The focus of this research is his thought on freedom and the ‘creative act’. We will argue that Berdiaev’s vision of freedom contains two types of freedom – a freedom understood within the created order and a freedom ‘outside’ of creation. It will be shown that in the former type, the reader finds a nuanced and insightful multi-layered conception of human freedom, which offers intriguing possibilities for exploring freedom and its implications for humanity. It will also be demonstrated that this type of freedom is closely related to his innovative view of creativity. Berdiaev conceives of freedom and creativity as distinct concepts, and yet so integrally related that they are interdependent. In the latter type of freedom, the reader will encounter a highly speculative and original metaphysical view that attempts to explain freedom as non-determination and answer the challenges of theodicy, which, this research will maintain, fails to do. This research will contend (contrary to Berdiaev’s own statements) that his thought is most comprehensible from a broadly theological perspective. This perspective will underscore the significant tension within his work that arises from his speculative metaphysics. Unlike earlier works on Berdiaev that glossed over this tension, we will attempt to ameliorate it by engaging Jürgen Moltmann’s theology of freedom. Moltmann’s theology will provide a number of ideas and concepts for an analysis, critique, and reconfiguration of Berdiaev’s vision. This reconfiguration will seek to remain faithful to Berdiaev’s core concerns, while providing a new interpretation of his thought that is relevant for a contemporary dialogue concerning the significance of freedom and creativity for the person and community in relation to God.

Dans le contexte pastoral évangélique, il est très difficile de s’expliquer qu’un croyant puisse aimer et servir Dieu avec passion pour constater, quelques années plus tard, que la motivation qui le pousse vers Dieu a été étouffée. Bien qu’ils utilisent des termes différents, les entraineurs sportifs posent essentiellement la même question : comment inciter les personnes sous leur charge à fournir un rendement correspondant à leur potentiel. Si la motivation est le moteur du comportement, pour bien des personnes, les émotions en constituent le volant. Il semble que par nature l’humain oriente son comportement vers les émotions agréables et s’éloigne des émotions désagréables. C’est aussi vrai pour le sportif que pour le croyant. Cette étude propose une réflexion interdisciplinaire entre la théologie et la psychologie au sujet du plaisir, de la motivation et de l’action humaine, à la fois dans le sport moderne et dans la spiritualité, qui permette d’aborder notre problématique sous un nouvel éclairage. Les premiers chapitres ont pour objectifs d’identifier la rencontre entre le sport et la spiritualité (chapitre 1), de situer la problématique dans son contexte anthropologique à partir de la compréhension psychologique contemporaine de l’émotion (chapitre 2) et de la motivation (chapitre 3). Les chapitres qui suivent examinent la motivation humaine chez les sportifs à partir de la psychologie du sport (chapitre 4), avant de consulter deux théologiens protestants Jürgen Moltmann du courant libéral et John Piper, évangélique conservateur (chapitre 5) pour introduire la discussion théologique. Bien que la psychologie contemporaine ait été une discipline longtemps figée dans un paradigme darwinien ou humaniste, décriant l’empiètement de la théologie sur sa compréhension de l’humain, le chapitre 6 présente des exemples où une discussion théologique de l’humain, dépourvue de toute validité empirique, peut apporter une vision complémentaire à la psychologie contemporaine et contribuer au bien-être du sportif comme à celui du croyant. Ainsi, la contribution de la psychologie, qui est acceptable à une interprétation évangélique, peut apporter un éclaircissement sur les raisons possibles d’un changement de motivation chez le croyant dans son amour et son service envers Dieu. Le dernier chapitre se veut le prolongement de cette étude dans d’autres domaines, comme les études bibliques et le counseling auprès des croyants et des sportifs et dans le cadre de l’aumônerie militaire. / For a pastor in the Christian Evangelical tradition, it is difficult to explain how a believer, who once loved and served God with passion, finds that a few years later his motivation directed towards God has waned. Though using different terminology, coaches ask essentially the same question concerning some of their athletes. How can they incite those under their supervision to perform in light of their full potential? If motivation is the motor of behaviour, for the majority of people emotions are the steering wheel. People, by nature, tend to steer their behaviour in a direction that reinforces desirable emotions and avoids those that are undesirable. This is true for both athletes and believers. This thesis proposes a reflection on motivation as it relates to two fields of study: theology and psychology. More precisely it looks at the subject of pleasure, motivation, and human action in the areas of modern sport and spirituality, with the intention of shedding new light on our problem. The first few chapters seek to identify the common ground between sport and spirituality (chapter 1), and to situate our problem in its anthropological context by defining the basic concepts of emotion (chapter 2) and motivation (chapter 3) according to modern psychology. The chapters that follow examine motivation from an understanding of sport psychology (chapter 4) before moving on to its counterpart from a theological perspective (chapter 5) by consulting two protestant theologians: Jürgen Moltmann of a liberal persuasion and John Piper, a conservative evangelical. Though contemporary psychology is known as being a discipline fixed in a Darwinian or Humanist paradigm which disassociates from any theological understanding of human beings, chapter 6 presents examples of how a theological discussion, outside of empirical confirmation, may bring a complementary vision to contemporary psychology and contribute to the well being of both athlete and believer. The chapter also proposes how an understanding of psychology, acceptable to an evangelical interpretation, may shed light on the possible changes in motivation a believer may experience in his love and service for God. The last chapter projects the ideas of this study to other fields of interest such as Bible study, the counseling of believers and athletes, and the work of military chaplains.