Hope Against Hope: Christian Eschatology at the Turn of the Millennium

by Richard Bauckham and Trevor A. Hart

Book Overview

The hopes by which the modern West has lived are widely understood to have failed. At the outset of the third millennium, we see the ideology of historical progress for what it is -- a myth that can no longer provide humanity with grounds for true hope. In Hope against Hope Richard Bauckham and Trevor Hart present a way forward -- through a radical faith in a global future that is in God's hands.

Using the present failure of secular...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802843913
• ISBN13: 9780802843913
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"