| Foreword | p. ix |
| Preface | p. xi |
| The World of Hope | p. 1 |
| A General Description of Hope | p. 1 |
| A Dwindling of Hope? | p. 1 |
| The Stirring of Hope | p. 3 |
| Features of Hope | p. 5 |
| Deeper Questions | p. 6 |
| Despair and Depression | p. 8 |
| Dimensions of Christian Hope | p. 11 |
| The Witness of Christian Hope | p. 11 |
| Hope and Time | p. 14 |
| "Inter-Hope" Dialogue | p. 15 |
| Conclusion | p. 17 |
| Hope as a Theological Virtue | p. 17 |
| A Pauline Description (Rom 5:1-5) | p. 18 |
| From Hope to Eschatology | p. 21 |
| The Richness of Tradition | p. 22 |
| Patristic and Medieval Inheritance | p. 23 |
| Developments in Church Teaching | p. 25 |
| The Context of Inter-Hope Dialogue | p. 25 |
| Philosophical Influences | p. 28 |
| The Theological Rediscovery of Eschatology | p. 30 |
| Liberation/Political Theology | p. 31 |
| Dialogue with Science | p. 37 |
| Eschatological Positions | p. 39 |
| The Language of Body and Soul | p. 39 |
| Time and Eternity | p. 48 |
| The Intelligence of Hope | p. 53 |
| The Via Negativa of Hope in the New Testament | p. 54 |
| Paul's Negations | p. 55 |
| Synoptic Negations | p. 57 |
| Negation in John | p. 58 |
| Conclusion | p. 59 |
| Dimensions of God's Love | p. 59 |
| The Father: Love as Origin | p. 60 |
| The Son: Love as Self-Giving | p. 62 |
| The Cross: Love as Unconditional | p. 62 |
| The Resurrection: Love as Transforming | p. 63 |
| The Holy Spirit: Love as Communicative | p. 64 |
| The Community/Church: Love as Sacrament in History | p. 65 |
| Eternal Life: Love Consummated | p. 66 |
| Developing Eschatology | p. 67 |
| The Way of Analogy | p. 68 |
| Interconnections | p. 69 |
| Reference to the Ultimate | p. 70 |
| Conclusion | p. 72 |
| The Parable of Hope: The Paschal Mystery | p. 73 |
| Paschal Sense of Time | p. 73 |
| Easter Sunday | p. 75 |
| The Significance of the Resurrection | p. 75 |
| The Empty Tomb | p. 79 |
| A Theological Note | p. 82 |
| The Cross of Good Friday | p. 85 |
| Holy Saturday | p. 89 |
| Conclusion | p. 93 |
| Death: Threat or Gift? | p. 95 |
| Death and Nature | p. 95 |
| Death and Culture | p. 96 |
| Differing Approaches | p. 98 |
| From Denial to Acceptance | p. 98 |
| Death as Fulfillment | p. 102 |
| "The Wages of Sin" | p. 105 |
| The Gift of Death | p. 108 |
| Death and the Other | p. 108 |
| Death as Gift | p. 110 |
| Purgatory: The Realism of Hope | p. 114 |
| The Christian Doctrine of Purgatory | p. 114 |
| Church Teaching | p. 115 |
| Scriptural Witness | p. 116 |
| Some Historical Witnesses | p. 116 |
| The Communion of Saints | p. 118 |
| The Suffering of Purgatory | p. 121 |
| A Theology of Purgatory | p. 123 |
| A Purifying Self-Realization | p. 123 |
| Purgatory as "Particular Judgment" | p. 124 |
| Meeting Christ | p. 124 |
| Conformity to the Crucified | p. 125 |
| The Suffering of Love | p. 126 |
| Attaining Compassionate Existence | p. 127 |
| The Flame of the Holy Spirit | p. 129 |
| The "Time" of Purgatory | p. 130 |
| Reincarnation | p. 132 |
| A Dialogical Impasse? | p. 132 |
| Possible Meeting Points | p. 135 |
| Hell: The Defeat of Hope? | p. 138 |
| The Consequences of Evading the Issue | p. 138 |
| The Hell of Christian Eschatology | p. 141 |
| The Data | p. 141 |
| Hope and Hell | p. 143 |
| Healthy Fear | p. 143 |
| Hope for Judgment | p. 145 |
| A Universe of Freedom | p. 151 |
| Human Justice and Divine Mercy | p. 152 |
| Hope against Hope | p. 154 |
| The Subterfuge of Love | p. 155 |
| The Demands of Hope | p. 157 |
| Heaven: The Homing of Hope | p. 159 |
| A Biblical Perspective | p. 159 |
| A Theologian's Witness | p. 161 |
| The Heaven of God-in-Christ | p. 163 |
| The Heaven of Martyrs | p. 165 |
| Heaven as the Fulness of Life | p. 166 |
| Heaven as Love | p. 166 |
| Heaven as the Vision of God | p. 169 |
| The Resurrection of the Body | p. 174 |
| Conclusion | p. 179 |
| Hope's Eucharistic Imagination | p. 181 |
| The Imagination of Jesus | p. 182 |
| Other Imaginations and the Eucharistic Imagination | p. 185 |
| The Eucharist within Cosmic Transformation | p. 187 |
| The Eucharist within the Sacramentality of the Church | p. 189 |
| Transubstantiation Revisited | p. 192 |
| Hope for Nature and Culture | p. 195 |
| Foretaste of Eternal Life | p. 197 |
| Conclusion | p. 200 |
| Living Hope | p. 201 |
| Eschatology and Hope | p. 201 |
| The Eschatology of Human Consciousness | p. 202 |
| The Dynamism of Existence | p. 203 |
| The Gift from Above | p. 204 |
| Hope as Conversion | p. 209 |
| Religious Conversion: The Reign of God | p. 209 |
| Christic Conversion: The Parousia | p. 210 |
| Ecclesial Conversion: The Community of Hope | p. 211 |
| Moral Conversion: Solidarity with the Hopeless | p. 212 |
| Intellectual Conversion: Hopeful Intelligence | p. 213 |
| Psychological Conversion: The Self Renewed | p. 215 |
| Bodily Conversion: The Materiality of Hope | p. 216 |
| The Witness of Hopeful Vocations | p. 218 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 223 |
| Index of Biblical References | p. 229 |
| Index of Subjects | p. 233 |
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