The Passionate God

Essay from the year 1998 in the subject Theology - Systematic Theology grade: A course: Course: The Doctrine of the Trinity (Prof. Dr. Geoffrey Wainwright Cushman Chair of Christian Theology) language: English abstract: This essay reviews Jürgen Moltmann's volume The Trinity and theKingdom: The Doctrine of God (1980). The author raises the question: To what degree is Moltmann's Trinitarian theology to be judged as a helpful contribution to the Jewish-Christian dialogue given the fact that Jews would disagree fundamentally with the description of God's unity as a relationship between three fully divine beings?