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The Apologetic Force of a Theology of Hope
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 February 2009
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Martin Marty and Dean Peerman in their New Theology series attempt to present the most significant recent theological trends. Volume 5, published in 1968, was devoted to the theology of hope. In the period from about 1967 to 1973 the word ‘hope’ appeared in the titles of numerous books to be found in theological bookstores and hope was the subject of various conferences at seminaries and universities. These books and symposia addressed themselves to an array of themes including a concern for the future, a call to political activism, a dialogue with Marxism inspired by the work on hope by the Marxist Ernst Bloch, exegetical studies of eschatology, Old and New Testament theological studies emphasising eschatology, and hope as the cognitive basis and starting-point for doing theology. The work that came closest to encompassing all these divergent strands and did much to stimulate thinking on these issues was Jürgen Moltmann's Theology of Hope published in 1967, in which he attempts ‘to show how theology can set out from hope’.
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page 120 note 1 I wish to express my thanks to the members of the Columbia University Seminar on Religion for their comments and criticisms of an earlier draft read at the seminar. I also wish to thank the editors of the Scottish Journal of Theology for their helpful suggestions which have improved the essay.