Jürgen Moltmann

The Resurrection of Christ and the New Earth

Petr Macek

The Doctrine of Creation in the Messianic Theology of Jürgen Moltmann

Ivana Noble

Doctrine of Creation within the Theological Project of Dumitru Stăniloae

Rodney D. Holder

Creation and the Sciences in the Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg

Beat Zuber

Bibel und Gnosis oder ein Vorschlag, den Gaul von Kopf her aufzuzämen

Ondřej Macek

Book review: Jan Heller, Jak orat s čertem: kázání

Petr Turecký

Book review: Jan Heller, Stezka ve skalách: postila

Igor Kiss

Book review: Sidonia Horňanová, Synagogues: Continuity between the Synagogue and Ecclesia

Author:

Jürgen Moltmann

Abstract:

In this meditation the inseparable unity between the concept of Creation and that of Ressurection is being advocated. Creation has an echatological meaning and cannot be therefore perceived as an entity of lower dignity in comparison with spiritual matters. In a similar vein, Resurrection doesn't mean but final rehabilitation of just this created, natural and earthly World. This being so, there is no legitimate way for religious escapism, abandoning and disregarding this World.

Keywords:

Creation - Resurrection - Nature - Religious engagement - Easter Liturgy - Earthly character of humans.

Cite As:

Moltmann, Jürgen. “The Resurrection of Christ and the New Earth.” Communio Viatorum 49, no. 2 (December 31, 2007): 141–49.

Author:

Petr Macek

Abstract:

After a brief biographical note, the author introduces the main work of Jürgen Moltmann as sorted into two series. While in the first series the controlling idea was the dialectics of the cross and the resurrection, a particular form of Trinitarian thought became the overarching principle in the second series. It is within the second series that Moltmann 's notion of Creation comes repeatedly under scrutiny. The core of the treatise concentrates on the way Moltmann deals with traditional Jewish and Christian items of creation theology and relates them to the present ecological concerns. Noticed and addressed is Moltmann's recent discovery of Romanian Eastern-Orthodox theologian Dimitru Stäniloae.

Keywords:

Jürgen Moltmann - Dumitru Stäniloae - Hope - Creation - Holy Trinity.

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Macek, Petr. “The Doctrine of Creation in the Messianic Theology of Jürgen Moltmann.” Communio Viatorum 49, no. 2 (December 31, 2007): 150–84.

Author:

Ivana Noble

Abstract:

This article provides a biographical and theological portrait of the Romanian Orthodox theologian, philosopher and prisoner of the communist regime Dumitru Stäniloae (1903-1993). Despite his intellectual achievements it was only in late sixties that Stäniloae found reception among western theologians. In his understanding of creation Stäniloae emphasizes that it is God's gift. No theology orphilsophy can therefore bypass the creation as a positive element on one 's spiritual journey. Emerging from a consequent Trinitarian thinking, Stäniloae sees no contrast between Hesychast concepts of individual deification and the task of profound humanisation.

Keywords:

Dumitru Stäniloae - Church in Romania - Eastern-orthodox theology - Philokalia - creation - Holy Trinity - Hesychasm - deification.

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Noble, Ivana. “Doctrine of Creation within the Theological Project of Dumitru Stăniloae.” Communio Viatorum 49, no. 2 (December 31, 2007): 185–209.

Author:

Rodney D. Holder

Abstract:

In expounding the Christian doctrine of creation, Wolfhart Pannenberg directly challenges Karl Barth's attitude to natural theology and lack of engagement with the natural sciences. Indeed Pannenberg sees dialogue with the sciences as essential for the establishing of all Christian truth claims since this must be done on the basis of a shared rationality and publicly accessible evidence. In this article I examine Pannenberg's advocacy of theology as a science in its own right. I explore his attitude to natural theology, his exposition of the doctrine of creation, and some key aspects of his thought such as contingency, where he sees consonance between the Biblical and scientific views, and, more controversially, the concept of field. ' I also briefly consider some suggestions for furthering his programme of providing rational support for theological claims.

Keywords:

Theology and natural science - natural science and theology - Pannnenberg, W. - Moltmann, J. - history, the nature of.

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Holder, Rodney D. “Creation and the Sciences in the Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg.” Communio Viatorum 49, no. 2 (December 31, 2007): 210–53.

Author:

Beat Zuber

Abstract:

In this article the cultural phenomenon of Gnosis, widely spread in Mediterraneum, is interpreted as a reaction to the Hellenistic globalisation of the whole region in late Antiquity. The suggestion is being made to understand the Creation story in Gen 1 as a deliberate polemics with Gnosis and its disdain for body and matter. If true, however, this suggestion would radically change the chronology of Biblical texts. Finally, the argument of Qumran library, often reffered to as the proof for Bible 's antiquity, is being challenged.

Keywords:

Gnosis - Dualism - Genesis, the book of - Qumran - Bible, origins of - Hellenism.

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Zuber, Beat. “Bibel Und Gnosis Oder Ein Vorschlag, Den Gaul von Kopf Her Aufzuzämen.” Communio Viatorum 49, no. 2 (December 31, 2007): 254–65.

Author:

Ondřej Macek

Abstract:

Review of the book: HELLER, Jan. Jak orat s čertem: kázání. Praha : Kalich, 2005. ISBN: 9788070170175. 

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Macek, Ondřej. Book review: Jan Heller, “Jak Orat s Čertem: Kázání.” Communio Viatorum 49, no. 2 (December 31, 2007): 266–68.

Author:

Petr Turecký

Abstract:

Review of the book: HELLER, Jan. Stezka ve skalách: postila. Prag : Kalich Verlag, 2006. ISBN: 9788070170434.

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Turecký, Petr. “Stezka ve Skalách: Postila.” Communio Viatorum 49, no. 2 (December 31, 2007): 269–71.

Author:

Igor Kiss

Abstract:

Review of the book: HORŇANOVÁ, Sidonia. Synagogues: Continuity between the Synagogue and Ecclesia. Bratislava : Comenius Univ, 2006. ISBN: 9788022321235.

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Kiss, Igor. Book review: Sidonia Horňanová, “Synagogues: Continuity between the Synagogue and Ecclesia.” Communio Viatorum 49, no. 2 (December 31, 2007): 272–74.