By Jürgen Moltmann Note: This address originally appeared in the January 2012 edition of Hospitality, the newspaper of the Open Door Community in Atlanta, Georgia. Jürgen Moltmann is Professor Emeritus of Systemic Theology at the University of Tübingen, Germany, and one of the world’s leading Protestant theologians, having authored such books as “Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology,” considered one of the most influential theological works of the second half of the 20th century, “The …
Author: Letitia
The last time I saw Kelly Gissendaner, at the end of the summer, she had just received a letter from German theologian Jurgen Moltmann. He told her he was planning to come visit her when he traveled to the United States this fall. This news raised Kelly’s spirits, and she was visibly more hopeful than I had seen her in some time. As Kelly has been awaiting a new death warrant — which she has now received — she and …