Reasons to Hope
Werner G. Jeanrond approaches hope from the perspective of a theology of love. He distinguishes human hopes from the hope which God has given to humanity. Jeanrond discusses the challenges of a Christian praxis of hope in today's world and invites both a new conversation on a future with God and a reassessment of the potential of hope for Christian discipleship.

Jeanrond argues that memory is important for hope, and that nobody can hope for herself or himself alone. Hope thus invites personal, communal, political and global participation and transformation. Moreover, it gives rise to a powerful constellation of symbolic expressions, including judgement, heaven, hell, and purgatory, that call for ongoing interpretation. Ranging from radical hope and the hope for salvation, to the power of judgment and contemporary fears about the future of nations, humankind and the world, Jeanrond's latest work offers a theological contribution to the multireligious conversation on hope, death and the human future in our universe.

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Reasons to Hope
Werner G. Jeanrond approaches hope from the perspective of a theology of love. He distinguishes human hopes from the hope which God has given to humanity. Jeanrond discusses the challenges of a Christian praxis of hope in today's world and invites both a new conversation on a future with God and a reassessment of the potential of hope for Christian discipleship.

Jeanrond argues that memory is important for hope, and that nobody can hope for herself or himself alone. Hope thus invites personal, communal, political and global participation and transformation. Moreover, it gives rise to a powerful constellation of symbolic expressions, including judgement, heaven, hell, and purgatory, that call for ongoing interpretation. Ranging from radical hope and the hope for salvation, to the power of judgment and contemporary fears about the future of nations, humankind and the world, Jeanrond's latest work offers a theological contribution to the multireligious conversation on hope, death and the human future in our universe.

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Reasons to Hope

Reasons to Hope

by Werner G. Jeanrond
Reasons to Hope

Reasons to Hope

by Werner G. Jeanrond

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Werner G. Jeanrond approaches hope from the perspective of a theology of love. He distinguishes human hopes from the hope which God has given to humanity. Jeanrond discusses the challenges of a Christian praxis of hope in today's world and invites both a new conversation on a future with God and a reassessment of the potential of hope for Christian discipleship.

Jeanrond argues that memory is important for hope, and that nobody can hope for herself or himself alone. Hope thus invites personal, communal, political and global participation and transformation. Moreover, it gives rise to a powerful constellation of symbolic expressions, including judgement, heaven, hell, and purgatory, that call for ongoing interpretation. Ranging from radical hope and the hope for salvation, to the power of judgment and contemporary fears about the future of nations, humankind and the world, Jeanrond's latest work offers a theological contribution to the multireligious conversation on hope, death and the human future in our universe.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780567668936
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 02/20/2020
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.47(w) x 9.23(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Professor Werner Jeanrond is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has previously taught systematic theology at Trinity College Dublin and at the Universities of Lund, Glasgow, and Oxford. Prior to his present appointment he was Master of St Benet's Hall in the University of Oxford. His books and articles in theology and hermeneutics have been translated into many languages.

Table of Contents

Preface
Notes for the Reader
Acknowledgements
1. Hope, Hopes and Radical Hope
2. Hoping for Salvation
3. Salvation or Reconciliation
4. Individual and Community: Three Eschatological Programmes
5. Memory and Hope
6. Death and Hope
7. Judgement, Heaven and Hell: The Power of Symbols
8. Christian Praxis of Hope and Europe's Future
9. Reasons to Hope
Select Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects

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