Hope is the remedy
[by] Bernard Häring.
- [1st ed.]
- Garden City, N.Y. Doubleday 1972.
- 192 p. 22 cm.
Unmasking the enemy -- Christ our hope -- Hope as dialogue -- Hope as solidarity in love -- Faith founded on hope -- The dynamism of hope: faith active in love -- The sacramentality of hope -- The sacraments of Christian hope -- The joyful character of hope -- Hope and responsibility for the world -- The human body as an expression of hope -- Abounding in peace -- The eschatological virtues -- Acting on the word -- Hope for the "hopeless"-- The courage to be -- Hope at its source
"Christian hope is a gift, an undeserved gift of peace, but it is also a call to decision, to a total life of decision. Christian hope means then, that in Christ, by entrusting ourselves to him, we can courageously face evil, accept our own need of further conversion, the lovelessness of others and all the investment of sin in the world around us and in our own heritage. We can face death just as we can face the mammoth task before us which, as St. Paul explains, is putting 'to death our selfish desires.' For this to become possible we need to entrust ourselves to Christ. We must be determined to take on the sentiments of Christ, his own outlook, the whole way he paved for us in selfless concern for others."