Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past.
Jürgen MoltmannAs long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.
Jürgen MoltmannThe knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.
Jürgen MoltmannThere were two different expectations in this land of the future. On the one hand the the optimistic belief in an unending progress with millenarianistic overtones and on the other hand the doomsday expectation of the final battle of Armageddon. Both are perspectives are uniquely American and both are inter-related.
Jürgen Moltmann