I. Theology and Politics
1. Theology in the Project of Modernity
(i) The birth of the modern world out of the spirit of the messianic hope
(ii) The contradiction between modernity and sub-modernity, or end-times of the modern world
(iii) The liberation of the earth: three Christian perspectives
(a) Cosmic spirituality
(b) The new earth science: "the Gaia hypothesis"
(c) Human beings and nature in covenant with God
(iv) The sabbath of the earth: the divine ecology
3. Human Rights - Rights of humanity - Rights of the Earth
(i) Human rights as we have them
(ii) Individual and social human rights
(iii) Human rights and the rights of the human race
(iv) Economic human rights and ecological obligations
(v) The rights of the earth and the dignity of its community of the living
(vi) The world religions in the forum of human rights
4. The Knowing of the Other and the Community of the Different
(i) The problem of like and unlike
(ii) Correspondence in knowing leads to community between the same and those who have been made the same
(iii) Knowledge of the other leads to community in deversity
(iv) The origin of knowing in wonder
5. Freedom in Community between Globalization and Individualism: Market Value and Human Dignity
(i) The double danger
(ii) Three dimensions of human freedom
(iii) Is the market to be the measure of all things?
III. Theology and Religion
1. The Pit - Where Was God? Jewish and Christian Theology after Auschwitz
(i) The horror remains
(ii) The The question about God in suffering and God's question about guilt
(iii) Jewish theology after Aushwitz: is Israel's God "the Lord of history"?
(iv) Christian theology after Aushwitz: is the God of Jesus Christ 'the Almighty"?
(v) God's question: "Cain, where is your brother Abel?"
2. Protestantism: "The Religion of Freedom"
(i) "Justified through faith alone"
(ii) "The religion of freedom": Protestantism
(iii) " The religion of community": the ecumenical era
(a) Living ecumenically
(b) Thinking ecumenically Summing-up
3. Liberalism and Fundamentalim in the Modern Era
(i) Principles and values of the modern world
(ii) Christian modernism
(iii) Christian fundamentalism
(iv) Beyond modernism
4. Dialogue or Mission? Christianity and the Religions in an Endangered World
(i) The present state of interfaith dialogue
(ii) Mission is the ijvitation to life
5. Theology for the Church and the Kingdom of God in the Modern University
(i) From a confessionally unified state to the multifaith society
(ii) Kingdom of God theology
(iii) The theological faculties and the common good
Notes
Bibliographical Details of Chapters
Index of Names
II. Theology in the Changing Values of the Modern World
1. Christian Faith in the Changing Values of the Modern World
(i) The God of the Bible and the experience of history
(ii) Does being human mean being part of nature or being a person?
(iii) The person between personal liberty and social fathfulness
(iv) Our modern lack of time and "he discovery of slowness"
2. The Destruction and Liberation of the Earth: Ecological Theology
(i) The destruction of the earth by the First world and Third World
(ii) The religious crisis of the modern world
(iii) The liberation of the earth: three Christian perspectives
(a) Cosmic spirtuality
(b) The new earth science: "the Gaia hypothesis"
(c) Human beings and nature in covenant with God
(iv) The sabbath of the earth: the divine ecology
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(iii) The rebirth of modernity out of the Spirit of life
2. Covenant or Leviathan? Political Theology at the Beginning of Modern Times
(i) The present question
(ii) The theology of covenant and the rigth of resistance
(iii) Leviathan: the mortal God and his absolute sovereignty
(iv) Covenant and Leviathan: a comparison
(v) Carl Schmitt's admiration for the Leviathan and his paganization of it
(vi) The new political theoogy and democracy
3. Political Theology and the Theology of Liberation
(i) Origins and beginnings
(ii) Developments in political theology i Europe
(a) Socialist theology
(b) The theology of peace
(c) Ecological theology
(d) The theology of human rights
(e) Feminist theology
(iii) Where do we stand?
(iv) The new situation: open questions
(v) The future of liberation theology
(vi) The theology of our liberation
(a) The globalization of the Third World
(b) On the way to a common theology of life
II. Theology in the Changing Values of the Modern World
1. Christian Faith in the Changing Values of the Modern World
(i) The God of the Bible and the experience of history
(ii) Does being human mean being part of nature or being a peson?
(iii) The person between personal liberty and social faithfulness
(iv) Our modern lack of time and "the discovery of slowness"
2. The Destruction and Liberation of the Earth: Ecological Theology
(i) The destrution of the earth by the First World and the Third World
(ii) The religious crisis of the modern world

This new book has grown from lectures which Jurgen Moltmann has given in predominantly secular institutions. Its main sections cover theology and politics, theology and the changing values of the modern world, and theology and religion. Many important issues are discussed: political theology and liberation theology, ecology and human rights, globalism and individualism, the market and human dignity. There are also chapters on Jewish and Christian theology after Auschwitz, Protestantism, liberalism and fundamentalism, dialogue and mission, and theology in the church and the university. At a time when theology in many quarters has become narrow and introspective, here is a theologian who is not afraid to address his words, both positive and critical, to the widest possible audience. Until his retirement, Jurgen Moltmann was Professor of Systematic Theology in the Protestant Faculty of the University of Tubingen