Author: Hong-Hsin LIN, Professor, Taiwan Graduate School of Theology.
Abstract:
Karl Barth’s contribution to trinitarian theology is one of the most important events in the history of modern theology. A further development of the trinitarian theology has been done by Jürgen Moltmann’s The Crucified God in 1972. Against traditional theology, Moltmann contends that the cross event happens not only in Economic Trinity but also in Immanent Trinity. He has probed into the personal relationship in Trinity. According to the passion narrative, the relationship between the Son as the victim and the Father as kin of the victim has revealed a suffering based upon mutual scarification, from where comes the power of the Spirit bringing in resurrection and hope. In this way, the tension between Immanent Trinity’s Transcendence & Economic Trinity’s Immanence is solved. Moltmann holds that the cross event is historical, but the resurrection is eschatological, so his theology is characterized by a horizontal dimension of historical concerns, which is lacking in Barth’s theology. Looking back to a volume published 50 years ago, we can see better that The Crucified God signifies a maiden voyage of Moltmann’s trinitarian theology.
Keywords:
Jürgen Moltmann, Theology of the Cross, passion narrative, Trinity, Transcendence & Immanence
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