November 2, 2007

MINNEAPOLIS – Jürgen Moltmann's life and work have marked the history of theology after the Second World War in Europe and North America like no other. He is the most widely read, quoted, and translated theologian of our time.

Now, after celebrating his eightieth birthday, he looks back on a life engaged in and forging a Christian response to the tumult and opportunities of our age.

In his newly released autobiography, A Broad Place, Moltmann tells his engaging and searching life story, from his Hamburg youth in an unconventional parental home up to the incomplete completion of the present moment.

Yet Moltmann's narrative also sheds light on the creative arc of his work, on the journey of his own theological development from his education after World War II through the beginnings of political theology and, most phenomenally, the advent of the theology of hope.

A wide-ranging document alert to the deeper currents of his time and ours, Moltmann's work is also an engrossing reconsideration of a life full of intense experience and new beginnings.

Jürgen Moltmann, one of the foremost religious thinkers in the world, is Professor of Systematic Theology Emeritus in the Protestant Faculty of the University of Tübingen, Germany. Among his most important and award-winning works from Fortress Press are The Coming of God (2004, in paper), The Source of Life (1997), God for a Secular Society (1998), and Experiences in Theology (2000). The Coming of God: Christian Eschatology received the 2000 Grawemeyer Award.

A Broad Place: An Autobiography, By Jürgen Moltmann, Translated by Margaret Kohl, Item No: 978-0-8006-6214-1, Format: Hardcover with jacket, 400 pages, 5.5 x 8.5 inches, Price: $27.00.

To order A Broad Place: An Autobiography please call Fortress Press at 1-800-328-4648 or visit the Web site at http://www.fortresspress.com/.

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