Theology of Hope Jurgen Moltmann Student`s essay

Theologyof Hope: Jurgen Moltmann

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1.0Thesis Statement Eschatologyis among contemporary issues in theology that preaches the gospel ofhope to Christians, and to interpret the significance of this study,used of events surrounding Eschatology such as death, return ofChrist and resurrection will be helpful, however, eschatologists haveheld controversial opinions on this subject with some disputing theexistence of eschatology while others supporting its existence thusmaking this subject an areas that need to be addressed to bring hopeto Christians.1.1Need for the Study This study is significant because it enablesChristiansto understand history of eschatology hence giving them the theologyof hope. Secondly,this study touches on some of contemporary issues in the life ofhuman beings such death, resurrection, and return of Christ,therefore, the topic provides opportunity for Christians tounderstand these issues better. Lastly,this study will also help Christians to address one of the areas ofacademic controversy, as many academicians have held differingopinions concerning this topic, with some trying to prove eschatologydoes not exist while others proving it do it exist. 2.0Procedureof the Study 2.1Logo ofChristian Eschatology

Thepassionate longing for the second return of the messiah is referredto as eschatology. Nevertheless, eschatology has an outlook ofChristian proclamation of an individual Christian and the church as awhole, putting church as Christians as one thing.¹Moreover, Christianity takes anything related with the theology ofthe future as a contemporary issue, which must be handled with greatcare.²However,many people believe the term eschatology is wrong because there is noway someone can talk about the future that he/she has neither seennor experienced.³Logos is a Greek term that refers to reality and basing argument fromthis sense there can be no reality about future unless it is aprogress of the present. Nevertheless, Christian eschatology gives apossibility of the future based on the second return of the JesusChrist.⁴Furthermore,the second return of Jesus Christ forms of reality based on Greeklogos is not similar to the Christian theology on eschatology.Moreover, teachings on eschatology bring contradictions on thepresent and future, experience, and hope thus causing conflicts inthe life of man.

2.2The Believing Hope

Hopegives faith a meaning particularly when there is an oppositionbetween the experimental reality and the word of promise.⁵Beliefmeans to transcend and cross bounds, which happens in such a way thatit does not evade realities. Faith is not a fact of a different kind,but it encourages anyone to believe in what he or she has never seenor experienced. Nevertheless, through hope, faith is only set in thecomprehensive future of Christ.⁶⁷Thisshows an intimate relationship between hope and faith.⁸In general, hope is an expectation of the things we have faith inthem and through Jesus Christ.⁹Thisexplains how faith causes unrest and agitation upon development tohope in Christians.¹⁰Inaddition, hope is viewed as more of a curse than a blessing in thechurch as it fails to stabilize the church.¹¹

3.0Bibliography

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Erickson,Millard J.&nbspContemporaryoptions in eschatology: a study of the millennium.Baker Book House, 2013. Erickson, Millard J.&nbspContemporaryoptions in eschatology: a study of the millennium.Baker Book House, 2013.

Fiddes, PaulS.&nbspThePromised End: Eschatology in Theology and Literature.Vol. 1. Blackwell Publishing, 2010.

Moltmann, Jürgen. Religion, revolution, and the future.Scribner, 2012.

Macquarrie,John.&nbspJesusChrist in modern thought.Burns &amp Oates, 2010.

Peters, Ted. &quotScience, theology, and ethics.&quot (2013).

Verhey, Allen, and Warren Kinghorn. &quot“The Hope to Which He HasCalled You”: Medicine in Christian Apocalyptic Context.&quotChristian Bioethics 22, no. 1 (2016): 21-38.

Webb, Stephen H. &quotKarl Barth and the Resurrection of the Flesh:The Loss of the Body in Participatory Eschatology, Nathan Hitchcock,James Clarke, 2013 (ISBN 978‐0‐227‐17410‐4),xviii+ 209 pp., pb£ 19.50.&quot Reviews in Religion &ampTheology 22, no. 4 (2015): 337-340.

Wirén, Jakob. &quotHope and otherness: Christian eschatology in aninterreligious context.&quot PhD diss., Lund University, 2013.

Zizioulas,Jean.&nbspBeingas communion: Studies in personhood and the church.No. 4. RSM Press, 2015

1 ^ Zizioulas, Jean.&nbspBeing as communion: Studies in personhood and the church. No. 4. RSM Press, 2015.

2Banda, Collium. &quotEmpowering hope?: Jürgen Moltmann’s eschatological challenge to ecclesiological responses in the Zimbabwean context of poverty.&quot PhD diss., Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University, 2016.

3 ^Erickson, Millard J.&nbspContemporary options in eschatology: a study of the millennium. Baker. Book. House, 2013. Erickson, Millard J.&nbspContemporary options in eschatology: a study of the millennium. Baker Book House, 2013.

4 ^Peters, Ted. &quotScience, theology, and ethics.&quot (2013)

5 ^Wirén, Jakob. &quotHope and otherness: Christian eschatology in an interreligious context.&quot PhD diss., Lunduniversity, 2013.

6 ^ Fiddes, Paul S.&nbspThe Promised End: Eschatology in Theology and Literature. Vol. 1. Blackwell Publishing, 2010.

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8 ⁷Wirén, Jakob. &quotHope and otherness: Christian eschatology in an interreligious context.&quot PhD diss., Lund University, 2013.

9 ⁸Moltmann, Jürgen. Religion, revolution, and the future. Scribner, 2012.

10 ⁹Webb, Stephen H. &quotKarl Barth and the Resurrection of the Flesh: The Loss of the Body in Participatory Eschatology, Nathan Hitchcock, James Clarke, 2013 (ISBN 978‐0‐227‐17410‐4), xviii+ 209 pp., pb£ 19.50.&quot Reviews in Religion &amp Theology 22, no. 4 (2015): 337-340.

11 ¹⁰Macquarrie, John.&nbspJesus Christ in modern thought. Burns &amp Oates, 2010.