A critical reflection on the doctrine of the Trinity in Jürgen Moltmann’s The Crucified God with relation to human suffering and pain

dc.contributor.advisorBuitendag, Johan
dc.contributor.coadvisorLabuschagne, Kobus
dc.contributor.emailnomsa09@gmail.comen_ZA
dc.contributor.postgraduateMnguni-Motsoko, Nomsa Patricia
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-13T10:40:27Z
dc.date.available2018-03-13T10:40:27Z
dc.date.created2018-04-20
dc.date.issued2018
dc.descriptionDissertation (MA)--University of Pretoria, 2018.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn his book The Crucified God; Jürgen Moltmann argues that the Church’s identity and relevance are intimately tied to what Christian theology has to say about God’s response in Christ – in referring to the meaning of the suffering and crucified Christ for the suffering of humankind and the created order. However the problem of human suffering cannot be approached without becoming aware of how God, in his revelation, becomes involved in a Trinitarian way. The intention is to search for answers to the problem in Jürgen Moltmann’s understanding of the Holy Trinity in its relation to human suffering. The crucified God, in Christ and Christ in God, meets us in our moments and situations of despair and God-forsakenness. When we cry out – Where is God? – and whilst crying out to the unreachable God in our lack of capacity, He reaches down in Trinitarian involvement in our world and in our history. The Trinitarian God reaches down to us in his gracious love, and plants His cross alongside our crosses of pain and destruction. God does that in His unexplainable kindness in our world order of the globalization of extreme evil and total exploitation of everything in God’s created world. The Triune God makes our suffering His suffering, and in His unending love He becomes the crucified God – for us victims and perpetrators.en_ZA
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dc.description.degreeMAen_ZA
dc.description.departmentDogmatics and Christian Ethicsen_ZA
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dc.identifier.otherA2018
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/64233
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherUniversity of Pretoria
dc.rights© 2018 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria.
dc.subjectTheologyen_ZA
dc.subjectUCTD
dc.subjectNew trinity thinking
dc.subjectSocial trinity
dc.subjectPain of humans
dc.subjectPain of God
dc.subjectEconomic trinity
dc.subjectImmanent trinity
dc.titleA critical reflection on the doctrine of the Trinity in Jürgen Moltmann’s The Crucified God with relation to human suffering and painen_ZA
dc.typeDissertationen_ZA

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