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‘A Simple and Warm Common Humanity’: Self-Transcendence and Restless Resilience in Jürgen Moltmann’s Theology

Powell, Adam J.

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Chris Cook
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Nathan White
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This chapter seeks to identify the particular influence theologian Jürgen Moltmann’s experiences of trauma and suffering during the Second World War had on his subsequent theology of hope, before then explicating how those experiences and that theological system relate to issues of health, well-being, and resilience. Ultimately, it is argued that themes of sociality and self-transcendence link Moltmann’s writings with his experiences and permit him to offer a vision of resilience as a restless discontentment with present circumstances that manifests as ‘the strength to be human’.

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Powell, A. J. (2019). ‘A Simple and Warm Common Humanity’: Self-Transcendence and Restless Resilience in Jürgen Moltmann’s Theology. In C. Cook, & N. White (Eds.), Biblical and theological visions of resilience. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429001185-14

Acceptance Date Jun 18, 2019
Online Publication Date Dec 6, 2019
Publication Date Dec 9, 2019
Deposit Date Oct 4, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Publisher Routledge
Series Title New critical thinking in religion, theology and biblical studies
Book Title Biblical and theological visions of resilience.
ISBN 9780367029111
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429001185-14

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