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By Jeff Gang, September 18, 2009 11:41 pm

Trinity by Andrei Rublev, 1425-1427

Earlier this week I posted the first part of my reflections from the 2009 Emergent Theological Conversation with Jürgen Moltmann in Libertyville, IL.  Here’s the second part:

On Doing Theology:

1. “Truth is found in unhindered dialogue.”
According to Moltmann, Karl Barth wasn’t good at dialogue with people who didn’t share his presuppositions. The professor saw this as a weakness in Barth’s theology. Instead, Moltmann tried to develop his theology through dialogue with people on the outside. We are not just doing theology for Christians, we are doing theology for everyone, he told us (I’m paraphrasing). I wonder, how open I am to “unhindered” dialogue as a pastor? Where are my theological conversations taking place? Who am I in dialogue with right now? Am I always talking to people who think like me?
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By Jeff Gang, September 9, 2009 3:09 am

Tomorrow morning I’ll be heading to Chicago for three days of theological conversations with Jürgen Moltmann, arguably one of the most influential theologians of the last one hundred years. The event is part of the 2009 Emergent Theological Conversation (You can follow the conversation at the Moltmann twub).

I discovered Moltmann several years ago while working on my doctorate at Fuller Theological Seminary. His concept of the relationality of the Trinity was an enormous help in my work. I recall stumbling upon one of his sermons, The Triune God: Rich in Relationships, (You can read here at the Per-Cruem-ad-Lucem blog. I went back to the chapter in my dissertation where I referenced it. Here’s an excerpt about the “wondrous community” of the Trinity:

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