ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book deals explicitly with the varying doctrinal materials to be found in Moltmann's corpus. The purpose of this is to display the theological logic of Moltmann's ethical insights. It continues with an eschatological understanding of human nature in Moltmann's thought, which thereby provides the basis for a description of human worth and dignity. The centrality of God's promising acts and creative work for the Christologically located Kingdom of God are argued to receive temporal application in what Moltmann calls kairological time. The book moves beyond theory to attainable praxis in a constructive endeavour to provide some prescriptive motifs arising from an ethic of eschatological hope within the realm of global economics. Finally, it concludes with a description of the type of moral action necessitated by the theological description of human worth within an eschatological understanding of God's salvific work.
