“In the cross of Christ God is taking man dead-seriously so that he may open up for him the happy freedom of Easter. God takes upon himself the pain of negation and the God forsakenness of judgement to reconcile himself with his enemies and to give the godless fellowship with himself. ~ Theology of Play, p.33” GodChristEasterReconciliationGod S LoveCross Of ChristGod S Justice Author:Jürgen Moltmann
“In the cross of Christ God is taking man dead-seriously so that he may open up for him the happy freedom of Easter. God takes upon himself the pain of negation and the God forsakenness of judgement to reconcile himself with his enemies and to give the godless fellowship with himself.” MenGivingMayPainChristEnemyCrossesJudgementEasterFellowshipReconcileNegation Book:Theology of play Source: Theology of play
“God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image of the crucified God the sick and dying can see themselves, because in them the crucified God recognizes himself.” SufferingChristGriefDyingSickHealSicknessSick And DyingGod Heals Author:Jürgen Moltmann
“That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.” RealityCausesChristImpatienceUnrestHope In Christ Author:Jürgen Moltmann
“That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in man. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present.” MenWorldHeartMeanDoeRealitySufferingCausesChristConflictCalmFleshImpatienceUnrestPeace With GodHope In Christ Author:Jürgen Moltmann
“Christ's own 'God-forsaken-ness' on the cross showed me where God is present where God had been present in those nights of deaths in the fire storms in Hamburg and where God would be present in my future whatever may come.” MayWould BeNightChristFireCrossesStormMy FutureForsaken Author:Jürgen Moltmann
“Even the disciples of Jesus all fled from their master's cross. Christians who do not have the feeling that they must flee the crucified Christ have probably not yet understood him in a sufficiently radical way.” WayFeelingsChristianJesusChristMastersUnderstoodCrossesRadicalDisciple Author:Jürgen Moltmann