This collection of provocative essays by one of the twentienth century's most distinguished theologians deals with topics as diverse as the right to work, nuclear war, the Olympic Games, and Judaism and Christianity--all within the frameWork of human rights. Jurgen Moltmann believes that the dignity of the human being is the source of all human rights; if this dignity is not acknowledged and exercised, human beings cannot fulfil their destiny of living as the image of God.
In the first part, 'Human Rights', Moltmann urges Christians not to abandon the discussion of and the fight for human...

Bosnia / Smail Balic? -- Africa / Patrick D. Gaffney -- Women in Islam and Christianity / Riffat Hassan -- Indonesia / Judo Poerwowidagdo -- Islam, the one and the many / John Renard -- The threat of Islam / John L. Esposito - Is Islam threatened by Christianity? / Mohammed Arkoun -- Tawhi?d / V.J. Cornell -- The challenge of Islamic monotheism / A. Gonza?lez Montes -- Human rights in Islam / Mahmud Gamal-ad-din -- The 1981 'Universal Islamic Declaration of Human Rights' / Heiner Bielefeldt -- Is Islamic revelation an abrogation of Judaeo-Christian revelation? / Abdulaziz Sachedina --...

In this provocative study, Dr Moltmann develops his interest in political theology with particular reference to the questions of liberation, joy and the glory of God. How, he asks, can we laugh and rejoice when there are still so many tears to be wiped away and when new tears are being added every day? He cites the recent musical Fiddler on the Roof. Are the Jewish congregation here singing just to forget, or is there really such a thing as freedom in the midst of slavery, joy in the midst of suffering ? The rest of his extended essay investigates the possibility that in playing we can...