Voices of Hope

Rediscovering and Building Hope for All
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-90-485-7734-7
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

Where can we find hope when the world seems so hopeless? Ours is not the first generation to pose this question. Across different eras and cultural contexts, people have sought ways out of despair. This volume assembles voices of hope drawn from multiple generations, faith traditions, scholarly disciplines, and regions of the world. These voices range from Thomas Aquinas and Pope Leo XIV to Jane Goodall and Imtiaz Sooliman, and from Desmond Tutu and Jonathan Sacks to Amanda Gorman and Yahya Mahmmoud. Together, they remind us that hope is not the same as optimism. It is neither an emotion nor a feeling. Hope is a personal and public practice, a way of living in tension, oriented toward what is not yet. It is something we practice because it is good in itself. This book is an invitation to join this conversation and explore whether and how it is still possible to be surprised by hope in our own time and our own contexts.

Zielgruppe

Academic

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hasselaar, Jan Jorrit

van Vuuren, Mark

Matos Castano, Julieta

Borgman, Erik

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Thomas Aquinas: Hope means participation in God’s love

Frederick Douglass: Hope in finding one’s voice and the freedom of becoming

Reinhold Niebuhr: Saved by hope

Viktor Frankl: Hoping as a response to the circumstances of life

Paul Ricoeur: Hopeful language?

Etty Hillesum: Hope as inner resistance

Nelson Mandela: Hope that changed the course of a nation

Jürgen Moltmann: Suffering hope?

Johann Bapt ist Metz: Hope from remembrance of suffering

Martin Luther King Jr.: The infinite complexity of hope

Desmond Tutu: Hope, suffering, and witness

Frits Goldschmeding: Hope as a basis for finding a new economic direction

Jane Goodall: Hope rooted in nature and relationship

Pope Francis: Hope does not disappoint

Václav Havel: The certainty that something makes sense

Audre Geraldine Lorde: Hope is where the sun meets the earth

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: The hope of transforming the world

John D. Caputo: Hoping against hope

Charles Snyder: Hope as a positive motivational state

Allan Boesak: Hope and the language of life in faith and politics

Martha Nussbaum: Hope against fear and passivity

Jonathan Sacks: A life in service of hope

Russel Botman: Hope as embodied public practice

Pope Leo XIV: United in the oneness of Christ

Thabo Makgoba: Hope as a liberation process

Imtiaz Sooliman: Hope in the face of disaster

Christian Wiman: Hope as loyalty to one’s deepest yearnings

Geordin Hill-Lewis: Cape Town – a city of hope for all

Malala Yousafzai: Hope in education for all

Amanda Gorman: Believing beyond disaster

Yahya Mahmmoud: Hope is in creating hopeful memories

Autumn Peltier: Hope carried through water

Can we be surprised by hope once more?

List of contributors and editors

Über Autor(innen)

van Vuuren, Mark
Mark van Vuuren is associate professor of positive organizing at the University of Twente, the Netherlands.

Matos Castano, Julieta
Julieta Matos Castaño is a research associate at Vrije futures Universiteit Amsterdam and a practitioner in the field of futures thinking and design Netherlands.

Hasselaar, Jan Jorrit
Dr. Jan Jorrit Hasselaar, theologian and economist, is Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Religion and Sustainable Development, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is research fellow of the University of the Western Cape (South Africa). Hasselaar chaired the working group ‘Sustainable Development’ of the Council of Churches in the Netherlands (2011-2018).

Borgman, Erik
Erik Borgman is a lay Dominican and professor emeritus of public theology at Tilburg University, the Netherlands.

Dr. Jan Jorrit Hasselaar, theologian and economist, is Director of the Amsterdam Centre for Religion and Sustainable Development, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. He is research fellow of the University of the Western Cape (South Africa). Hasselaar chaired the working group ‘Sustainable Development’ of the Council of Churches in the Netherlands (2011-2018).

Mark van Vuuren

Julieta Matos Castano

Erik Borgman is lekendominicaan en hoogleraar theologie aan Tilburg University. Hij promoveerde in 1990 in Nijmegen op een proefschrift over bevrijdingstheologie. Hij publiceert met name over de actuele betekenis van geloof, christendom en kerk in onze cultuur en voor de hedendaagse samenleving.