Jurgen Moltmann is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at the University of Tubingen in Germany. He has consistently tried to expand the horizons of this field and does so again in this paperback. He states: "Theology must abandon its confinement to church, belief and the inwardness of the heart, so that with all others it may search for the truth of the whole, and the salvation of a torn and disrupted world."
In this ambitious work, he examines the intersection of science and the spiritual tradition of wisdom in Judaism, Christianity, and Taoism. With muscular energy and precision, Moltmann delineates creation as an open system and then builds upon this foundation his Christian interpretations of time and eternity, the end of the world, and God and space. The intellectually exciting last section of the book assesses the thorny dilemmas of biomedical progress, the life of Giordano Bruno, and the wisdom in Lao Tsu's Tao Te Ching. In the end, Moltmann makes a good case for honoring the mysteries of the universe and approaching the created world with wonder.
