The Way of Jesus Christ Quotes

“The crucified Christ has become a stranger to the civil religion of the First World and to that world's Christianity.”
― Jürgen Moltmann, The Way of Jesus Christ

“The same Christ Jesus is not the same for everyone, because people are different. He has one profile for the poor and another for the rich, one profile for the sick and another for the healthy.”
― Jürgen Moltmann, The Way of Jesus Christ

“The messianic hope was never the hope of the victors and the rulers. It was always the hope of the defeated and the ground down.31 The hope of the poor is nothing other than the messianic hope.”
― Jürgen Moltmann, The Way of Jesus Christ

“As the Christ for all human beings, Jesus takes hold of our divided and peaceless human society at its lowest point, among the miserable, the despised and the unimportant.”
― Jürgen Moltmann, The Way of Jesus Christ

“Isaiah 11.1-9 goes a step further, giving this picture of the messiah a new depth. The coming messiah, who springs from the house of Jesse, is the true 'anointed one'. Yahweh's ruach will 'rest' on him,
and will equip him with wisdom, understanding, counsel and strength, and with the fear of the Lord' (cf. 11 Sam. 23.2). His legitimation depends on the divine righteousness, not on his Davidic origin. He will bring justice to the poor and an equitable judgment to the miserable, and he will defeat the wicked - the oppressors. So the kingdom of his righteousness does not merely embrace poor human beings. He brings peace to the whole of creation, peace between man and beast, and peace among the beasts themselves (vv. 6-8). This kingdom will reach out from his holy place Mount Zion, so that `the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord' - a vision which no doubt corresponds to Isaiah's vision at his call (6.3): `the whole earth is full of his glory'.”
― Jürgen Moltmann, The Way of Jesus Christ

“The history of the kings is the story of how those who had been anointed failed to live up to that anointing. It is this fact alone that can explain the rise of messianism: belief in the anointed one who will fulfil his anointing.' 14”
― Jürgen Moltmann, The Way of Jesus Christ

“If it were merely sin that existed, and not the resulting transience as well, contrition would be appropriate', said Athanasius, and goes on: `But God becomes human and subjects himself to "the law of death" so as to take away death's power over human beings and his creation, and in order to bring immortality to light.'16”
― Jürgen Moltmann, The Way of Jesus Christ

“As far as we have any historical information on the subject, the public history of Jesus began when he was about thirty years old (Luke 3.23), with John the Baptist.”
― Jürgen Moltmann, The Way of Jesus Christ

“In the New Testament, Christ's 'virgin birth' is related only by Luke and Matthew. It was unknown, or considered unimportant, in wide areas of early Christian belief (the Pauline and Johannine sectors, for example). But from the third century onwards it became a firm component of the Christian creeds and theological christologies.”
― Jürgen Moltmann, The Way of Jesus Christ