sacred anarchy

“In the Scriptures the odd phenomena constituting the “Kingdom of God” are the offspring of the shock that is delivered by the name of God to what is there called the “world,” resulting in what I call a “sacred anarchy.” Consider but a sampling of its more saliant features. In the Kingdom, the last are [...]

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history, guilt and future

history, guilt and future – pdf version (footnotes included)
I saw a shirt the other day that had a picture of several Native Americans on horseback with the text reading, “Homeland Security: Defending against terrorism since 1492.” How should I as a European-descended citizen of the United States react to this account of history? The same [...]

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the christian’s call

the call to discipleship to christ is “the call to join in working for the kingdom of god that is to come.”
“the point of reference of his expressions and renunciations, his activities and sufferings . . . is his call. it is to this, and not to himself, that he seeks to live. it is [...]

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the contradiction of hope

hope finds in christ not only a consolation in suffering, but also the protest of the divine promise against suffering. if paul calls death the ‘last enemy’ (I cor. 15.26), then the opposite is also true: that the risen christ, and with him the resurrection hope, must be declared to be the enemy of death [...]

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anticipation of reality

in the medium of hope our theological concepts become not judgments which nail reality down to what it is, but anticipations which show reality its prospects and its future possibilities.
- jurgen moltmann, theology of hope

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