Jürgen Moltmann is Professor Emeritus of Systematic Theology at the University of Tübingen. He is a former member of the Faith and Order Committee of the World Council of Churches and also the Robert W. Woodruff Distinguished Visiting Professor of Systematic Theology at Candler School at Emory University. He is the author of Experiences of Joy: Ways and Forms of Christian Theology and also the winner of the 2000 Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion.