Sun of Righteousness, Arise! Quotes

“Anyone who believes in the power of God and the power of Satan can surely not be viewed as a pure monotheist.”
― Jürgen Moltmann, Sun of Righteousness, Arise!: God's Future for Humanity and the Earth

“It is modern narrow-mindedness to relate the church only to the world of human beings; it has always been cosmos-orientated too, and is so still. If the church sees itself as the beginning and germ of the new creation, then the present ecological crisis is not just a crisis of modern civilization. It is the church’s crisis in this civilization as well. The suffering of weaker creatures is the church’s suffering too. ‘If one member suffers, all suffer together.’ What suffers is not just ‘our natural environment’; it is God’s environment as well. The modern nihilistic destruction of nature is nothing other than practised atheism. The perpetrators are excommunicating themselves from the community of creation.

In the face of this danger, a new cosmic spirituality is developing in many groups and churches today, a spirituality in which we reverence God’s hidden presence in all living things and hope for their future in the kingdom of God.”
― Jürgen Moltmann, Sun of Righteousness, Arise!: God's Future for Humanity and the Earth

“We experience what life and death really are when we love, for in love we go out of ourselves, become capable of happiness and at the same time can be hurt.”
― Jürgen Moltmann, Sun of Righteousness, Arise!: God's Future for Humanity and the Earth