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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| The World of Hope | |
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| A General Description of Hope | |
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| A Dwindling of Hope? | |
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| The Stirring of Hope | |
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| Features of Hope | |
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| Deeper Questions | |
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| Despair and Depression | |
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| Dimensions of Christian Hope | |
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| The Witness of Christian Hope | |
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| Hope and Time | |
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| "Inter-Hope" Dialogue | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Hope as a Theological Virtue | |
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| A Pauline Description (Rom 5:1-5) | |
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| From Hope to Eschatology | |
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| The Richness of Tradition | |
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| Patristic and Medieval Inheritance | |
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| Developments in Church Teaching | |
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| The Context of Inter-Hope Dialogue | |
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| Philosophical Influences | |
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| The Theological Rediscovery of Eschatology | |
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| Liberation/Political Theology | |
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| Dialogue with Science | |
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| Eschatological Positions | |
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| The Language of Body and Soul | |
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| Time and Eternity | |
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| The Intelligence of Hope | |
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| The Via Negativa of Hope in the New Testament | |
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| Paul's Negations | |
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| Synoptic Negations | |
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| Negation in John | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Dimensions of God's Love | |
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| The Father: Love as Origin | |
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| The Son: Love as Self-Giving | |
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| The Cross: Love as Unconditional | |
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| The Resurrection: Love as Transforming | |
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| The Holy Spirit: Love as Communicative | |
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| The Community/Church: Love as Sacrament in History | |
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| Eternal Life: Love Consummated | |
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| Developing Eschatology | |
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| The Way of Analogy | |
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| Interconnections | |
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| Reference to the Ultimate | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Parable of Hope: The Paschal Mystery | |
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| Paschal Sense of Time | |
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| Easter Sunday | |
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| The Significance of the Resurrection | |
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| The Empty Tomb | |
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| A Theological Note | |
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| The Cross of Good Friday | |
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| Holy Saturday | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Death: Threat or Gift? | |
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| Death and Nature | |
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| Death and Culture | |
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| Differing Approaches | |
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| From Denial to Acceptance | |
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| Death as Fulfillment | |
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| "The Wages of Sin" | |
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| The Gift of Death | |
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| Death and the Other | |
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| Death as Gift | |
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| Purgatory: The Realism of Hope | |
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| The Christian Doctrine of Purgatory | |
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| Church Teaching | |
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| Scriptural Witness | |
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| Some Historical Witnesses | |
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| The Communion of Saints | |
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| The Suffering of Purgatory | |
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| A Theology of Purgatory | |
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| A Purifying Self-Realization | |
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| Purgatory as "Particular Judgment" | |
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| Meeting Christ | |
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| Conformity to the Crucified | |
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| The Suffering of Love | |
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| Attaining Compassionate Existence | |
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| The Flame of the Holy Spirit | |
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| The "Time" of Purgatory | |
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| Reincarnation | |
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| A Dialogical Impasse? | |
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| Possible Meeting Points | |
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| Hell: The Defeat of Hope? | |
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| The Consequences of Evading the Issue | |
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| The Hell of Christian Eschatology | |
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| The Data | |
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| Hope and Hell | |
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| Healthy Fear | |
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| Hope for Judgment | |
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| A Universe of Freedom | |
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| Human Justice and Divine Mercy | |
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| Hope against Hope | |
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| The Subterfuge of Love | |
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| The Demands of Hope | |
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| Heaven: The Homing of Hope | |
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| A Biblical Perspective | |
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| A Theologian's Witness | |
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| The Heaven of God-in-Christ | |
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| The Heaven of Martyrs | |
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| Heaven as the Fulness of Life | |
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| Heaven as Love | |
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| Heaven as the Vision of God | |
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| The Resurrection of the Body | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Hope's Eucharistic Imagination | |
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| The Imagination of Jesus | |
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| Other Imaginations and the Eucharistic Imagination | |
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| The Eucharist within Cosmic Transformation | |
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| The Eucharist within the Sacramentality of the Church | |
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| Transubstantiation Revisited | |
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| Hope for Nature and Culture | |
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| Foretaste of Eternal Life | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Living Hope | |
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| Eschatology and Hope | |
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| The Eschatology of Human Consciousness | |
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| The Dynamism of Existence | |
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| The Gift from Above | |
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| Hope as Conversion | |
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| Religious Conversion: The Reign of God | |
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| Christic Conversion: The Parousia | |
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| Ecclesial Conversion: The Community of Hope | |
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| Moral Conversion: Solidarity with the Hopeless | |
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| Intellectual Conversion: Hopeful Intelligence | |
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| Psychological Conversion: The Self Renewed | |
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| Bodily Conversion: The Materiality of Hope | |
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| The Witness of Hopeful Vocations | |
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| Selected Bibliography | |
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| Index of Biblical References | |
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| Index of Subjects | |