Table of Contents

Foreword by Matthew W. Charlton
Preface by Jürgen Moltmann
List of Contributors
1. Introduction - Timothy R. Eberhart
2. A Royal Miracle and Its Nachleben - Walter Brueggemann
3. Augustine on Riches and Poverty - J. Patout Burns
4. The Future of the Wesleyan Movement - John B. Cobb Jr.
5. Go Tell Pharaoh, or, Why Empires Prefer a Nameless God - R. Kendall Soulen
6. M. Douglas Meeks: Process Theologian - Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
7. Christology in the Context of Current Western Systematic Theological Reflection - Michael Welker
8. Interpreting the Text, Interpreting the World: A Wesleyan Hermeneutics of Economic Life - Sondra Wheeler
9. The Church and Its Ministry: Expanding an Ecumenical Vision - Charles M. Wood
10. Who Hopes for What He Already Sees - Josiah U. Young III
11. Economy, Violence, and Culture of Peace - Néstor O. Míguez
12. A Culture of Life in the Dangers of This Time - Jürgen Moltmann

About the Author

Jürgen Moltmann is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology, Universität Tübingen. Timothy R. Eberhart is Assistant Professor of Theology and Ecology at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Evanston, Illinois, and the Methodist Theological School in Ohio, in Delaware, Ohio. Matthew W. Charlton is Assistant General Secretary of Collegiate Ministry at the General Board of Higher Education and Ministry of the United Methodist Church, and is Adjunct Professor of Religion at Belmont University and Methodist Theological School in Ohio, in Delaware, Ohio.

Reviews

"The quality and range of subjects addressed by the prominent contributors to this Festschrift provide highly interesting reading and render much-deserved tribute to the influence of M. Douglas Meeks as one of America's foremost theologians in uncovering for the church and contemporary society the biblical significance of economics according to 'the economy of God'."
Christopher Morse, Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor Emeritus of Theology and Ethics, Union Theological Seminary

"Such a powerful packet of papers - including the prophetic wisdom precisely calibrated for this perilous moment by Cobb and Moltmann - makes for a great tribute to a theologian who early exposed the oikonomia of global devastation."
Catherine Keller, Professor of Constructive Theology, Drew Theological School
Meeks teaches us how to place our hope - as disciples of Jesus, as members of local congregations, as stewards of institutional life, and as global citizens - in God's power for life over death through Jesus Christ and "the Holy Spirit in an age of ecological devastation and economic injustice. These essays will serve to eliven and clarify this hope for the sake of the world God so loves"
Bradford McCall, Regent University, Theological Book Review vol.28 no.1, pp.41-2