We shall work out what in the texts [biblical writings] furthers life, and we shall subject to criticism whatever is hostile to life.
1. What furthers life is whatever ministers to the integrity of human life in people and communities.
2. What furthers life is whatever ministers to the integration of individual life into the life of the community, and the life of the human community into the warp and weft of all living things on earth.
3. What furthers life is whatever spreads reverence for life and the affirmation of life through love for life.
4. What furthers life is whatever heals broken relationships and liberates life that has been oppressed.
5. What furthers life is whatever leads to the new beginning of life in hope.
6. What furthers life is whatever ministers to God's covenant with life, and whatever breaks the covenant of human beings with death.
7. What furthers life is, first and last, whatever makes Christ present, Christ who is the resurrection and the life in person; for in and with Christ the kingdom of eternal life is present, and this kingdom overcomes the destructive powers of death.
— Jurgen Moltmann, Experiences in Theology