| Preface |
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| 1. The World of Hope |
1 |
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| A General Description of Hope |
1 |
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| A Dwindling of Hope? |
1 |
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| The Stirring of Hope |
3 |
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| Features of Hope |
5 |
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| Deeper Questions |
6 |
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| Despair and Depression |
8 |
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| Dimensions of Christian Hope |
11 |
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| The Witness of Christian Hope |
11 |
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| Hope and Time |
14 |
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| "Inter-Hope" Dialogue |
15 |
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| Conclusion |
17 |
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| Hope as a Theological Virtue |
17 |
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| A Pauline Description (Rom 5:1-5) |
18 |
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| 2. From Hope to Eschatology |
21 |
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| The Richness of Tradition |
22 |
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| Patristic and Medieval Inheritance |
23 |
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| Developments in Church Teaching |
25 |
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| The Context of Inter-Hope Dialogue |
25 |
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| Philosophical Influences |
28 |
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| The Theological Rediscovery of Eschatology |
30 |
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| Liberation/Political Theology |
31 |
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| Dialogue with Science |
37 |
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| Eschatological Positions |
39 |
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| The Language of Body and Soul |
39 |
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| Time and Eternity |
48 |
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| 3. The Intelligence of Hope |
53 |
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| The Via Negativa of Hope in the New Testament |
54 |
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| Paul's Negations |
55 |
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| Synoptic Negations |
57 |
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| Negation in John |
58 |
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| Conclusion |
59 |
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| Dimensions of God's Love |
59 |
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| The Father: Love as Origin |
60 |
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| The Son: Love as Self-Giving |
62 |
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| The Cross: Love as Unconditional |
62 |
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| The Resurrection: Love as Transforming |
63 |
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| The Holy Spirit: Love as Communicative |
64 |
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| The Community/Church: Love as Sacrament in History |
65 |
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| Eternal Life: Love Consummated |
66 |
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| Developing Eschatology |
67 |
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| The Way of Analogy |
68 |
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| Interconnections |
69 |
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| Reference to the Ultimate |
70 |
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| Conclusion |
72 |
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| 4. The Parable of Hope |
73 |
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| The Paschal Mystery |
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| Paschal Sense of Time |
73 |
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| Easter Sunday |
75 |
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| The Significance of the Resurrection |
75 |
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| The Empty Tomb |
79 |
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| A Theological Note |
82 |
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| The Cross of Good Friday |
85 |
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| Holy Saturday 89 |
89 |
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| Conclusion |
93 |
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| 5. Death |
95 |
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| Threat or Gift? |
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| Death and Nature |
95 |
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| Death and Culture |
96 |
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| Differing Approaches |
98 |
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| From Denial to Acceptance |
98 |
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| Death as Fulfillment |
102 |
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| "The Wages of Sin" |
105 |
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| The Gift of Death |
108 |
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| Death and the Other |
108 |
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| Death as Gift |
110 |
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| 6. Purgatory |
114 |
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| The Realism of Hope |
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| The Christian Doctrine of Purgatory |
114 |
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| Church Teaching |
115 |
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| Scriptural Witness |
116 |
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| Some Historical Witnesses |
116 |
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| The Communion of Saints |
118 |
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| The Suffering of Purgatory |
121 |
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| A Theology of Purgatory |
123 |
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| A Purifying Self-Realization |
123 |
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| Purgatory as "Particular Judgment" |
124 |
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| Meeting Christ |
124 |
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| Conformity to the Crucified |
125 |
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| The Suffering of Love |
126 |
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| Attaining Compassionate Existence |
127 |
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| The Flame of the Holy Spirit |
129 |
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| The "Time" of Purgatory |
130 |
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| Reincarnation |
132 |
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| A Dialogical Impasse? |
132 |
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| Possible Meeting Points |
135 |
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| 7. Hell |
138 |
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| The Defeat of Hope? |
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| The Consequences of Evading the Issue |
138 |
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| The Hell of Christian Eschatology |
141 |
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| The Data |
141 |
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| Hope and Hell |
143 |
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| Healthy Fear |
143 |
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| Hope for Judgment |
145 |
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| A Universe of Freedom |
151 |
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| Human Justice and Divine Mercy |
152 |
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| Hope against Hope |
154 |
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| The Subterfuge of Love |
155 |
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| The Demands of Hope |
157 |
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| 8. Heaven |
159 |
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| The Homing of Hope |
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| A Biblical Perspective |
159 |
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| A Theologian's Witness |
161 |
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| The Heaven of God-in-Christ |
163 |
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| The Heaven of Martyrs |
165 |
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| Heaven as the Fullness of Life |
166 |
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| Heaven as Love |
166 |
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| Heaven as the Vision of God |
169 |
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| The Resurrection of the Body |
174 |
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| Conclusion |
179 |
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| 9. Hope's Eucharistic Imagination |
181 |
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| The Imagination of Jesus |
182 |
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| Other Imaginations and the Eucharistic Imagination |
185 |
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| The Eucharist within Cosmic Transformation |
187 |
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| The Eucharist within the Sacramentality of the Church |
189 |
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| Transubstantiation Revisited |
192 |
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| Hope for Nature and Culture |
195 |
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| Foretaste of Eternal Life |
197 |
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| Conclusion |
200 |
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| 10. Living Hope |
201 |
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| Eschatology and Hope |
201 |
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| The Eschatology of Human Consciousness |
202 |
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| The Dynamism of Existence |
203 |
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| The Gift from Above |
204 |
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| Hope as Conversion |
209 |
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| Religious Conversion: The Reign of God |
209 |
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| Christic Conversion: The Parousia |
210 |
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| Ecclesial Conversion: The Community of Hope |
211 |
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| Moral Conversion: Solidarity with the Hopeless |
212 |
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| Intellectual Conversion: Hopeful Intelligence |
213 |
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| Psychological Conversion: The Self Renewed |
215 |
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| Bodily Conversion: The Materiality of Hope |
216 |
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| The Witness of Hopeful Vocations |
218 |
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| Selected Bibliography |
223 |
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| Index of Biblical References |
229 |
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| Index of Subjects |
233 |
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Tác giả: Rudolf Bultmann
Tác giả: Tony Kelly
Tác giả: Vô Danh
Tác giả: Lm. Fx. Tân Yên
Tác giả: Nhiều Tác Giả
Tác giả: Felipe Gomez, SJ.
Tác giả: Vô Danh
