Tag: the Holy Spirit

Jürgen Moltmann fought for the Nazis in World War II and was taken as a POW to the UK for 3 years. It’s obvious he suffered from PTSD if you read his accounts, but he also suffered terribly as he and his fellow prisoners were shown pictures of the Nazi death camps of the Holocaust and realized what he had really been fighting for. He says all of the prisoners felt a sense of overwhelming shame. He was also afflicted with “survivor’s guilt,” as he constantly thought about all those who had died all around him and wondered why he had been spared. In the prison camp, a chaplain gave him a Bible which he read “without much comprehension.” I thought you might like to read a few quotes from his book on the Holy Spirit called, “The Source of Life”…  Continue reading “Quotes from “The Source of Life” by Jürgen Moltmann”