Resurrected to Eternal Life: On Dying and Rising

In this deeply personal and daring meditation eminent theologian Jrgen Moltmann challenges many closely held beliefs about the experience of dying the nature of death and the hope of eternal life. Moving deftly between biblical theological and existential domains Moltmann argues that while we know intimately the experience of dying--both our loved ones dying and ultimately our own--death itself is a mystery. Are those who have died in fact dead? If the dead are alive how or in what respect? When the dead awaken to eternal life who wakes? Moltmanns interrogations yield surprising and beautiful fruits. The living soul that awakens to eternal life is not a ghost in a machine but the Lebensgestalt the shape and story of a life its human and divine contexts its whole. Drawing on themes from his oeuvres entire arc Resurrected to Eternal Life testifies to the inner unity of Moltmanns theology: the cross the Spirit the kingdom the end and the hope that makes the end present here and now. Seasoned readers of Moltmann will find in these pages a capstone of a lifetime of theological exploration while those new to his complex thought will find a concise and elegant entry point into his voluminous work.