• Billboard in MN, said “Unless you confess God cannot bless”, more I thought about it, the more uncomfortable I got. It seems like a reformed idea, but I’m not sure it fits. It seems to me that God is by nature a non-contingent being. God isn’t sitting around waiting for me to do something,…
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Moltmann Conversation – Breakout Workshop on the future that is coming towards us
Finding the Future Session: • Recognizing wisdom in the gathered congregation – tool for genereative listening • Cataphatic = likes images, sensual concepts; apaphatic = way of negation • Website – blog Sabbath journey (typepad) http://web.mac.com/terrychapman/A_SABBATH_JOURNEY/BEGIN_HERE_files/Moltmann%20Breakout%20Group%208-26.pdf • Icarus – Matisse… Sabbath is a way to a safe place in the heart of creation (6 stars/birds)…
Moltmann Conversation – Session 4 Justice
• War and Peace = 3 options 1) chance swords into Christian swords and become a dragon killer – the evil kingdom is oppressed, the axis of evil eliminated, etc. HCE option and atomic bombs into Christian atomic bombs; 2) leave the swords to the unbelievers – this is an option outside of the perfection…
Moltmann Conversation – Session 3 Crucified God
• Soteriology didn’t make sense until I read this book – Shroyer • Don and ann from a pastoral perspective, other speaker coming from a personal working through pain and changing ideas of God – three years since his 4 mo. Son died. Questions of where God is in the midst of that. Moltmann is…
Moltmann Conversation – Session 2: Method
Method w/ Tripp Fuller: • You broke some of the rules of German Protestant Systematic Theology that would have been part of your theological education. “Every consistent theological system lays claim to totality… in principle one has to be able to say everything… everything has to fit in w/o contradiction… an aesthetic charm… this is…
Moltmann Conversation: Lightning Round
• JPII: He was a good pope.• Pannenburg: he is a very dear friend and opponent• Bonhoffer: died too early• Alfred North Whitehead: very complicated to read• Derrida: hmm… I think postmodernity is just another form of modernity.. okay – we have universal dangers which we can meet only united, we can not split up…
Moltmann Conversation – 1: Method/Life
• Talking about theological method is like listening to someone clearing their throat – if you do it too long, people will leave • Easy to tell, difficult to live through these years. Born in 20’s in Hamburg, secular family of educators, no connections to a church – NO church in Hamburg, • Went to…
Moltmann Conversation – Notes from Opening with John Franke
1. Job of theology – what is God doing in the world today? in the church today?2. Have you ever noticed Christians don’t and have never agreed? especially on BIG issues! 3. How do we make sense of that? 4. It’s not THE Christian tradition, but many traditions and ways of Christ.5. Franke hopes in…