encounters the world as something entirely new. The kingdom of God is a “wholly new order, quite independent of all creaturely and even Christian development” (CD III/2, 486). Yet Christian hope cannot be ambivalent or hesitant about this future—expecting not twilight or shadow but “good and salvation” and the judgment of grace, since “the Subject of expectation, i.e., the One expected,” is not a human projection (CD IV/3.2, 908). Hope is required for the consummation of all things, with Christ himself