Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this creative act of God’s … Resurrection is not a consoling opium, soothing us with the promise of a better world in the hereafter. It is the energy for a rebirth of this life. The hope doesn’t point to another world. It is focused on the redemption of this one.
Jürgen MoltmannNo where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in the Revelation of John.
Jürgen Moltmann. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.
Jürgen MoltmannThe present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.
Jürgen Moltmann