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For a time of peril, world-renowned theologian Jürgen Moltmann offers an ethical framework for the future. Long distinguished as the architect of political theology and father of the theology of hope, Moltmann has shown how hope in the future decisively reconfigures the present and shapes our understanding of central Christian convictions, from creation to New Creation. Now, in an era of...

In this first chapter we will look at the theological connection between hope and action. The different answers to Immanuel Kant’s question, ‘What can I hope for?’ always affect the various choices of action open to us in response to the question, ‘What should I do?’ We become active in so far as we hope. We hope in so far as we can see into the sphere of future possibilities. We undertake what we think is possible. If, for example, we
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