A Broad Place: An Autobiography Book

Preface ix

Part I Youth

1 The Settlement 3

2 July 1943: Operation Gomorrah 13

3 Prisoner of War, 1945-47 19

Part II Apprenticeship

4 Theology Student in Göttingen, 1948-52 39

5 Pastor in Wasserhorst, 1953-58 53

Part III Beginnings

6 The Church Seminary in Wuppertal, 1958-64 71

7 Public Theology 82

Part IV Theology of Hope

8 The Theology of Hope, 1964 97

9 The Christian-Marxist Dialogue 119

10 My American Dream 131

Part V Political Theology

11 A First Beginning in Tübingen, 1967 147

12 A Second Beginning in Tübingen 159

13 Lecture Tour Worldwide, 1969-75 165

14 World Mission Assembly in Bangkok, 1972-73 170

15 Ways to the Far East, 1973 and 1975 176

Part VI In the Sign of the Cross to New Trinitarian Thinking

16 The Crucified God, 1972 189

17 Theological Expansions of the Horizon 201

18 Ecumenical Expansions of the Horizon 218

19 In My Own Place 236

20 In Christian-Jewish Dialogue 266

Part VII Uncompleted Completions-The Challenges of Life

21 The New Trinitarian Thinking 285

22 The 1985 Gifford Lectures in Edinburgh: God in Creation 295

23 Our Long Walk to China, 1985 302

24 God-His and Hers: Joint Theology with Elisabeth 321

25 New Love for Life 334

Part VIII In the End-The Beginning

26 The Festival of the End and the Beginning 355

27 New Emphases 364

Notes 381

Index of Names 401