The Apostles's Creed in the Light of Today's Questions

In this collection of impressive lectures Wolfhart Pannenberg expounds and interprets the Apostles Creed in the light of todays questions. First of all we must find out what it meant to those who originally recited it and then ask what it may mean for the modern Christian in the context of the problems and convictions of the present-day understanding of reality. Everything must start from the Lord himself and the author holds that his message of the kingdom was without qualification eschatological. Indeed the central theme of the whole book―and some readers will certainly find it hard to take―is that the worlds Creator is its future. Therefore its meaning is held in Gods future or the End-time realized already in Jesus through his resurrection and exaltation as Lord. yet to be fulfilled in a redeemed creation. Here we have no diluted Christianity made palatable for the mass-media but what the author presents as the thing itself in its challenging pristine strangeness and distinctiveness. Yet all the way it is closely related to the everyday thinking of twentieth-century men and to Christian life in a pluralist society.