Voices of Hope

Voices of Hope

Rediscovering and Building Hope for All

Where can we find hope when the world seems so hopeless? Ours is not the first generation to pose this question. Across different eras and cultural contexts, people have sought ways out of despair. This volume assembles voices of hope drawn from multiple generations, faith traditions, scholarly disciplines, and regions of the world. These voices range from Thomas Aquinas and Pope Leo XIV to Jane Goodall and Imtiaz Sooliman, and from Desmond Tutu and Jonathan Sacks to Amanda Gorman and Yahya Mahmmoud. Together, they remind us that hope is not the same as optimism. It is neither an emotion nor a feeling. Hope is a personal and public practice, a way of living in tension, oriented toward what is not yet. It is something we practice because it is good in itself. This book is an invitation to join this conversation and explore whether and how it is still possible to be surprised by hope in our own time and our own contexts.
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Jan Jorrit Hasselaar

Jan Jorrit Hasselaar, economist and theologian, is associate professor of public theology and director of the Amsterdam Centre for Religion & Sustainable Development at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He is a research fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Jan Jorrit is co-chair of the Global Network for Public Theology.

Mark van Vuuren

Mark van Vuuren is associate professor of positive organizing at the University of Twente, the Netherlands.

Julieta Matos Castano

Julieta Matos Castaño is a research associate at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and a practitioner in the field of futures thinking and design at Futures Compass, based in the Netherlands.

Erik Borgman

Erik Borgman is a lay Dominican and professor emeritus of public theology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.
Titel
Voices of Hope
Subtitel
Rediscovering and Building Hope for All
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€ 24,99
ISBN
9789048577347
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Hardback
Aantal pagina's
224
Taal
Engels
Publicatiedatum
Afmetingen
14.5 x 21 x 1.9 cm
Categorieën
Philosophy and Ethics
Theology and Religion
Discipline
Religion and Philosophy
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Introduction
Thomas Aquinas: Hope means participation in God’s love
Frederick Douglass: Hope in finding one’s voice and the freedom of becoming
Reinhold Niebuhr: Saved by hope
Viktor Frankl: Hoping as a response to the circumstances of life
Paul Ricoeur: Hopeful language?
Etty Hillesum: Hope as inner resistance
Nelson Mandela: Hope that changed the course of a nation
Jürgen Moltmann: Suffering hope?
Johann Bapt ist Metz: Hope from remembrance of suffering
Martin Luther King Jr.: The infinite complexity of hope
Desmond Tutu: Hope, suffering, and witness
Frits Goldschmeding: Hope as a basis for finding a new economic direction
Jane Goodall: Hope rooted in nature and relationship
Pope Francis: Hope does not disappoint
Václav Havel: The certainty that something makes sense
Audre Geraldine Lorde: Hope is where the sun meets the earth
Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: The hope of transforming the world
John D. Caputo: Hoping against hope
Charles Snyder: Hope as a positive motivational state
Allan Boesak: Hope and the language of life in faith and politics
Martha Nussbaum: Hope against fear and passivity
Jonathan Sacks: A life in service of hope
Russel Botman: Hope as embodied public practice
Pope Leo XIV: United in the oneness of Christ
Thabo Makgoba: Hope as a liberation process
Imtiaz Sooliman: Hope in the face of disaster
Christian Wiman: Hope as loyalty to one’s deepest yearnings
Geordin Hill-Lewis: Cape Town – a city of hope for all
Malala Yousafzai: Hope in education for all
Amanda Gorman: Believing beyond disaster
Yahya Mahmmoud: Hope is in creating hopeful memories
Autumn Peltier: Hope carried through water
Can we be surprised by hope once more?
List of contributors and editors

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