In this his major work to date Eberhard Jungel continues his discussion of God's being how do we speak of God so that our speaking is, in fact, of God? With an intellectual rigor and a passionate engagement rarely equalled in German Protestan theology, Jungel argues that the answer lies in a theology which consistently maintains the identification of God and the crucified Jesus. The basic intent of the book is to exposite the one statement from First John: God is Love. God as love is the mystery of the world. And through this mystery of love man moves from the fixation of wanting to have into the freedom of being able to be.