Jürgen Moltmann
Jürgen Moltmann was born in Hamburg, Germany, on April 8, 1926. Moltmann was raised in a rather “enlightened secular” home, he underwent a no very profound Christian socialization. He also grew up poets and philosophers of the German Idealism: Lessing, Goethe, and Nietzsche. As the time being, far from Christianity, the church and the Bible. He was drafted at the end of 1944, to fight in WWII in the German army at the age of eighteen. During the war he served as a solider for six months before surrendering, in Belgium, in 1945; for the first British solider he met. For three years of, he was confined to prisoner-of-war camps in Belgium, Scotland, and England. In the Belgium camp he saw how other prisoners collapsed inwardly, they gave up all hope, became sick and dying for the lack of it. Later concern with phenomenon of hope is initially rooted in his personal experiences as a prisoner –of-war. When he returned to Germany in 1948, He began to study theology regularly at Gottingen University. As he was studying there under teachers was strongly influenced by barth. He initially became a disciple of a great master of dialectical theology. Seeing some need to move beyond a narrow understanding of Barth and “Barmen orthodoxy”- as he wanted to give positive possibilities as well as cultural challenges to the post-was …show more content…
This theory may had been summed up from the introduction to the whole direction; the theological hope of our concepts became not the judgments that nailed down the reality to what it was. Fixed form to reality does not give the theological concepts, expanded by the hope and being anticipate the being for the future. The fact of the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus Christ was the central to theology of hope, but the history
Jürgen Moltmann was born in Hamburg, Germany, on April 8, 1926. Moltmann was raised in a rather “enlightened secular” home, he underwent a no very profound Christian socialization. He also grew up poets and philosophers of the German Idealism: Lessing, Goethe, and Nietzsche. As the time being, far from Christianity, the church and the Bible. He was drafted at the end of 1944, to fight in WWII in the German army at the age of eighteen. During the war he served as a solider for six months before surrendering, in Belgium, in 1945; for the first British solider he met. For three years of, he was confined to prisoner-of-war camps in Belgium, Scotland, and England. In the Belgium camp he saw how other prisoners collapsed inwardly, they gave up all hope, became sick and dying for the lack of it. Later concern with phenomenon of hope is initially rooted in his personal experiences as a prisoner –of-war. When he returned to Germany in 1948, He began to study theology regularly at Gottingen University. As he was studying there under teachers was strongly influenced by barth. He initially became a disciple of a great master of dialectical theology. Seeing some need to move beyond a narrow understanding of Barth and “Barmen orthodoxy”- as he wanted to give positive possibilities as well as cultural challenges to the post-was …show more content…
This theory may had been summed up from the introduction to the whole direction; the theological hope of our concepts became not the judgments that nailed down the reality to what it was. Fixed form to reality does not give the theological concepts, expanded by the hope and being anticipate the being for the future. The fact of the crucifixion and the resurrection of Jesus Christ was the central to theology of hope, but the history