RT Article
T1 Revisiting Jürgen Moltmann’s theology of open friendship
JF International journal for the study of the Christian church
VO 21
IS 2
SP 177
OP 187
A1 Adiprasetya, Joas
LA English
PB Routledge
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1799336417
AB Jürgen Moltmann’s theology of open friendship, which he has consistently explicated for the last forty years, has contributed greatly to the theological discourse of friendship. Here I attempt to demonstrate that Moltmann has not developed this subject much over his forty years of engagement with it. However, based on his valuable insights, I offer two constructive proposals to further his idea of open friendship. The first is more analytical in that I demonstrate that Moltmann’s understanding of open friendship is close to what is called the ‘drawing’ model of friendship, although the advent of strangers among us necessitates that we take both Moltmann and the drawing model further. My second proposal is to construct imaginatively a new munus triplex of Jesus as Friend, Servant, and Stranger rather than following Moltmann who suggests a munus quadruplex focusing on Jesus the Friend.
K1 Moltmann
K1 friend
K1 munus triplex
K1 open friendship
K1 servant-steward
K1 Strangers
DO 10.1080/1474225X.2021.1942618