Leaning into the Future: The Kingdom of God in the Theology of Jeurgen Moltmann and in the Book of Revelation: 117 (Princeton Theological Monograph Seris)

Description: Leaning into the Future seeks to explore what it may mean to believe in the Kingship of God and wait for his Kingdom by considering the fundamental role the Kingdom of God plays in the theology of Jürgen Moltmann and in the book of Revelation. Part one is devoted to how Moltmann understands The Kingdom of God as the fundamental symbol of hope for humanity and how he sees the presence of Gods reign and kingdom in history as hidden and paradoxical. Part two turns to the way the Book of Revelation uses royal and other political language in its portrait of the future and Gods presence in history. In this second part the book also seeks to explore how Moltmann and the Apocalypse may mutually inform each other how Moltmann may help us read this biblical book today and how it in turn may overcome some of the weaknesses in Moltmanns proposal. Endorsements: There has been a movement on the part of some biblical scholars and some systematic theologians to bring their disciplines back together after a long period of alienation. This is not a matter of dissolving one into the other but of finding ways in which serious dialogue can bear fruit. Poul Guttesens work is an exemplary contribution to this. By engaging Jürgen Moltmanns theology and the biblical book of Revelation in a mutually illuminating dialogue Guttesen is of course hosting such an encounter within the creative theological context of his own engagement with both. He enters with sympathy and perception into both of these visions of the kingdom of God with their very different theological idioms and explores both the consonances and the tensions he finds between them. --Richard Bauckham from the Foreword In recent years there has been an encouraging resolve to bridge the gap between biblical studies and systematic theology. Poul Guttesen contributes to this movement with considerable distinction. Sensitive and qualified in both areas he shows how enriching it is to use both Moltmann in biblical interpretation and Revelation to correct Moltmanns eschatology. Poul Guttesen combines theological competence with an awareness of the practical urgency of thinking aright about the kingdom of God. --Stephen Williams Union Theological College About the Contributor(s): Poul F. Guttesen is Adjunct Lecturer in the Faculty of Education at the University of the Faroe Islands.