The problem with doing Religious Studies at university is that when I'm researching for essays, I always find interesting stuff to read that distracts me from my research!
Here's a wee snippet...
(from The Crucified God, by Jurgen Moltmann)

"It is true that faith lives by the anticipation of the kingdom through and in Jesus. But this is not a spiritualisation or individualisation of real salvation. Nor is it an enclave of redemption in an unredeemed world. Nor is faith a redeemed soul which still regards the unredeemed world with indifference. It is the eschatological anticipation of redemption, an anticipation through and in one who was the outcast, rejected and crucified. The memory of the crucified anticipator of the kingdom makes impossible for a Christian any spiritualisation or individualisation of salvation, and any resigned acceptance of participation in an unredeemed world."
"In view of the misery of the creation, the fact that the atonement is already accomplished, although its struggle continues, is incomprehensible without the future of the redemption of the body and of the peace which brings the struggle to an end."