The virtue of hope: Aquinas: hope as a passion; Aquinas: hope as a virtue; Albo on hope; after Aquinas and Albo
The negation of hope: ancients; moderns; Spinoza; Schopenhauer; Nietzsche
The faith of hope: hope in the Hebrew scriptures; hope in early Judaism; hope in early Christianity; post-New Testament development
Philosophies of hope: Condorcet; Kant; Blocjh; Arendt
Theologies of hope: Herman Cohen: messianism as politics; Franz Rosenzweig: Judaism as an anti-politics; Martin Buber: politics on the narrow ridge; Walter Rauschenbusch: the social gospel of hope; Stanley Hauerwas: the church as the place of hope; Jürgen Moltmann: a political theology of hope; Catholicism on hope and politics: the church in the modern world.