By Jürgen Moltmann,Timothy R. Eberhart,Matthew W. Charlton

ISBN-10: 1498236367

ISBN-13: 9781498236362

ISBN-10: 1620326280

ISBN-13: 9781620326282

over the past 4 many years, the focal point of M. Douglas Meeks' paintings has positioned him on the middle of a number of the most crucial advancements in theological mirrored image and schooling. As a political, ecclesial, and metaphorical theologian, Meeks has given witness to the oikonomia of the triune God, the Homemaker who creates the stipulations of domestic for the total of production, in severe dialog with modern monetary, social, and political theory.
The essays of this quantity have been written to honor Meeks, professor of theology at Vanderbilt Divinity tuition, by means of addressing the topic of God's economic climate of salvation from biblical, historic, ecclesial, and theological views. In an age of ecological devastation and financial injustice, Meeks teaches us the best way to position our hope--as disciples of Jesus, as individuals of neighborhood congregations, as stewards of institutional existence, and as worldwide citizens--in God's strength for all times over loss of life via Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. those essays will serve to brighten up and make clear this wish for the sake of the area God so loves.

CONTRIBUTORS: Jürgen Moltmann, Timothy Reinhold Eberhart, Matthew W. Charlton, Walter Brueggemann, Josiah younger, Kendall Soulen, Marjorie Suchocki, Patout Burns, John Cobb, Michael Welker, Néstor O. Míguez, Charles M. wooden, and Sondra Wheeler.

"The trustworthy lifetime of the church on this planet has been Douglas Meeks' lifelong concentration as a theologian. This quantity honors that profession through amassing essays of his colleagues that probe what faithfulness of the church skill in our current globalized financial reality."
--Randy L. Maddox, William Kellon quickly Professor of Wesleyan and Methodist experiences, Duke Divinity School

"The caliber and diversity of matters addressed via the popular individuals to this Festschrift offer hugely fascinating studying and render much-deserved tribute to the effect of M. Douglas Meeks as certainly one of America's optimum theologians in uncovering for the church and modern society the biblical importance of economics in accordance with 'the economic system of God.'"
--Christopher Morse, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor Emeritus of Theology and Ethics, Union Theological Seminary

"Such a robust packet of papers--including the prophetic knowledge accurately calibrated for this perilous second via Cobb and Moltmann--makes for an exceptional tribute to a theologian who early uncovered the oikonomia of worldwide devastation."
--Catherine Keller, Professor of optimistic Theology, Drew Theological School

Jürgen Moltmann is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, Universität Tübingen.

Timothy R. Eberhart is Assistant Professor of Theology and Ecology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, and the Methodist Theological institution in Ohio, in Delaware, Ohio.

Matthew W. Charlton is a United Methodist pastor in Nashville, Tennessee, and is Adjunct Professor of faith at Belmont college and Methodist Theological university in Ohio, in Delaware, Ohio.

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