Topic > An empathetic God: Moltmann's crusading theology

Christianity has at its center a crucial moment in history with all its theological and practical cornerstones. To undertake a Christology is to consider what it is in the nature and character of God that would necessitate and facilitate the cross. While classical theology has often disdained any idea of ​​a God endowed with feelings and emotions, Jürgen Moltmann rejects it by showing that God suffers empathically and experiences humiliation alongside humanity in the person of Jesus. This article aims to investigate the concept of Moltmann of a God who suffers, particularly in contrast to the classical notion of God's impassibility. He will then explore how his assertion might influence theology and worship. Finally, we will briefly consider how Moltmann's theology of the cross might find application in a Wesleyan ecology of faith. “Jesus' death on the cross is the center of all Christian theology.”1 If Karl Barth is Christocentric in his approach to the Dogmatic Church, then Moltmann is completely cross-centered in his crucified God. He makes clear that all aspects of theology – creation, God, sin and death, faith and sanctification, future and hope – all find their foundation in the cross of Christ. The cross is not the only theme, but it is “the gateway to His problems and answers on earth.”2 It is through the cross that we learn the nature and character of God, especially as revealed in Trinitarian terms. transversal event, from humiliation, beatings, suffering, abandonment and abandonment to the pain and agony of his slow death, Moltmann rejects the classical position that God is apathetic and without emotions or feelings; proposes that God is deeply moved as Father, Son and Holy Spirit. There is more than one legal trans…… middle of paper……r to resurrect it. Through the cross, God broke into the fallen world and revealed himself more fully than ever before. Moltmann puts on full display the loving nature of God as one who would do anything – the sacrifice of a Son – to save humanity. And Jesus retained the fullness of his divinity as he threw himself headlong into suffering and death on behalf of the world. Now there is no place where God has not been. Works Cited Dunning, H. Ray. Grace, Faith, and Holiness: A Wesleyan Systematic Theology. Kansas City, Missouri: Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City, 1988.Moltmann, Jürgen. The crucified God: the cross of Christ as the foundation and criticism of Christian theology. 1st Fortezza Press ed. Minneapolis: FORTRESS PRESS, 1993. Oden, Thomas C. The Word of Life (Systematic Theology. Vol. 2). Peabody, Mass.: Prince Press, 2001.