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TL;DR: For example, Pannenberg, Metz, and Moltmann as discussed by the authors were among the contributors to the festschrift Ernst Bloch zu ehren, which was devoted to the future-directed philosophy of Bloch.
Abstract: AMONG THE VENERATED academic figures in Tübingen is the philosopher Ernst Bloch. Hope is the key to his system of esoteric Marxism, a vast attempt to inherit from religion—above all Christianity—a revolutionary hope which takes the categories of the new and the future with full seriousness. For genuine, eschatological Christian hope God is not above, but before. Bloch wishes to retain this thrust into the future, even if for him the Deus absconditus of the future is the still unattained Homo absconditus? the \"hypostasized ideal of the human essence which has not yet come to be in its reality\"' Bloch's militant optimism means understanding human rights and dignity by reaching forward to an eschaton and putting the golden age in the future, not in the past. For \"the true Genesis is not at the beginning, but at the end\" It is no accident that Wolfhart Pannenberg, J. Β. Metz, and Jürgen Moltmann are among the contributors to the festschrift Ernst Bloch zu ehren. Each of these young German theologians is concerned to provide an alternative to the current personalist, existentialist, Heideggerianinfluenced type of \"Word-theology. In this Moltmann and Metz are clearly affected by the future-directed philosophy of Bloch. Pannenberg, while fully acknowledging the importance of Bloch in reminding Christian theology that \"the full concept of the eschatological\" is the
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TL;DR: The most recent edition of the commentary series is Volume XIV, 6, 6 as mentioned in this paper, which begins the commentary on Amos by Hans Walter Wolff and contains an introduction to the book, plus part of a commentary on its first major section (Chaps. 1-2).
Abstract: FASCICLES of this important commentary series continue to appear from time to time. Most recently received is Volume XIV, 6, which begins the commentary on Amos by Hans Walter Wolff. Readers who are familiar with Wolff's works on Hosea and on Joel, both reviewed in these columns some years ago, will welcome this newest addition to the series. The present fascicle contains an introduction to the book, plus part of the commentary on its first major section (Chaps. 1-2). We eagerly await the completion of what promises to be a splendid commentary on this important book.
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