
From Mechthild’s theological poetics—a material trinitarian theology communicated in truly unique fashion—we traverse another half a millennium to the twentieth-century theologies of the husband and wife theological duo Jurgen Moltmann (1926–) and Elisabeth Moltmann-Wendel (1926–). Grounding the texts produced by Augustine and Mechthild in their historical contexts has been a way of demonstrating the importance of material particularity even in contexts where it is overtly denied. As I have suggested, regrounding these texts in the bodies of their unique historical contexts creates a foundation to begin considering a material trinitarian theology that challenges the power of disembodied assumptions. Moltmann and Moltmann-Wendel, however, do not overtly attempt to abandon materiality in their pursuit of the trinitarian God. Moltmann and Moltmann-Wendel, rather, explicitly challenge theologians to understand the power dynamics implicitly present in theological arguments and, thus, value diverse forms of embodiment. Both Moltmann and Moltmann-Wendel imply a material trinitarian theology by focusing on suffering bodies and focusing on the incarnation, in Moltmann and Moltmann-Wendel, respectively. Moltmann and Moltmann-Wendel develop these theological contributions via different theological methods; Moltmann explicitly starts with the biblical narrative while Moltmann-Wendel explicitly starts with the experiences of women.
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