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This short textbook, the latest volume in the Guides to Theology series, surveys key themes and aspects of Christian hope by tracing eschatological ideas as they have developed from Scripture throughout the history of theology. John McDowell and Scott Kirkland present a series of lenses on understanding eschatological statements, or the content of Christian hope. They have structured their book...

Karl Marx (1818–1883) recognized hope’s regulative function. His hope for the communist society played an important part in determining the nature of his critique of modern capitalist societies, and he had noted how Christian belief/hope operates in redirecting the vision of those alienated from the products of their labor, each other, and themselves. Mentioning Marx here is highly appropriate when it is remembered that Barth, when pastor in Safenwil
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