Hope Against Hope: Christian Eschatology at the Turn of the Millennium

The hopes by which the modern West has lived are widely understood to have failed. At the outset of the third millennium, we see the ideology of historical progress for what it is — a myth that can no longer provide humanity with grounds for true hope. In Hope against Hope Richard Bauckham and Trevor Hart present a way forward — through a radical faith in a global future that is in God's hands.

Using the present failure of secular hope as the context for a renewal of the Christian vision for...