agape

occupation / innovator as

scientist

nationality

German

university teacher

theologian

religion

Lutheranism

World War II

innovator in the field of

is the magic power that brings the non-existent into being, the love to the nonexistent, love to the unlike, unworthy, worthless, the lost, transient and the dead.

the magic power that brings the [non-existent] into being' (TH 32). This power refuses to look at the future as a continuation of the godforsaken present plagued by death and sufferign. Instead, agape 'surveys the open possibility of history' (ibid.). In distinguishing agape from philia, Moltmann defines agape as 'love to the nonexistent, love to the unlike, the unworthy, the worthless, to the lost, the transient and the dead

is the power to create out of nothing and the power to bring the dead to life.

the power to create out of nothing and the power to bring the dead to life.'

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