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This volume is a collection of Josef Pieper’s famous treatises on the three theological virtues of faith, hope, and love. Each of these treatises was originally published as a separate work over a period of 37 years. On Hope was written in 1934 in response to the despair of that era. On Faith was derived from a series of lectures he gave in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His most difficult...

published in 1936. It oversteps the limits in the following definition:8 “In the eighteenth century ‘belief’ was transferred from the sphere of the supernatural and religious with a special meaning to the area of the natural and this-worldly, and in the later usage usually signifies a strong emotional relationship to secular values, ideals, personalities, and so forth, which appear to be akin, in inner force and ethical content, to religious ‘belief’.” As evidence for this statement, the following
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