Toward a Theology of Hope

Abstract

“The debates that have gone on between Schweitzer, Cullmann, Bultmann, Dodd, Jeremias, etc., have … only [yielded] answers to the historical question: What did Jesus or the early church happen to hope? They have not taken up the question of what it means for man to hope at all, whether to be human is to have hope, and therefore in what way eschatologies from the past may be addressed to man today, offering him the ground, guidelines, and goal of his inevitable hoping.”