Voices of Hope Rediscovering and Building Hope for All

Introduction

Thomas Aquinas: Hope means participation in God’s love

Erik Borgman

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

Julieta Matos Castaño

Reinhold Niebuhr: Saved by hope

Andries Bouwman and Trineke

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

Mark van Vuuren

Paul Ricoeur: Hopeful language?

Henco van der Westhuizen

Etty Hillesum: Hope as inner resistance

Nelson Mandela: Hope that changed the course of a nation

Daniël Andrew

Jürgen Moltmann: Suffering hope?

Henco van der Westhuizen

Johann Bapt ist Metz: Hope from remembrance of suffering

Erik Borgman

Martin Luther King Jr.: The infinite complexity of hope

Jacob Bouwman and Sylvia van de Bunt

Desmond Tutu: Hope, suffering, and witness

John Klassen

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

Govert Buijs

Jane Goodall: Hope rooted in nature and relationship

Julieta Matos Castaño

Pope Francis: Hope does not disappoint

Erik Borgman

Václav Havel: The certainty that something makes sense

Erik Borgman

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

Eugene Fortein

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew: The hope of transforming the world

Jan Jorrit Hasselaar

John D. Caputo: Hoping against hope

Calvin Ullrich

Charles Snyder: Hope as a positive motivational state

Ernst Bohlmeijer

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

Marius Louw

Martha Nussbaum: Hope against fear and passivity

Mark van Vuuren

Jonathan Sacks: A life in service of hope

Jan Jorrit Hasselaar and Miriam Feldmann-Kaye

Russel Botman: Hope as embodied public practice

Demain Solomons

Pope Leo XIV: United in the oneness of Christ

Erik Borgman

Thabo Makgoba: Hope as a liberation process

Jan Jorrit Hasselaar

Imtiaz Sooliman: Hope in the face of disaster

Grant Walters, Abigail Hopley and Mcebisi Pinyana

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

Mark van Vuuren

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

Jan Jorrit Hasselaar and Julieta Matos Castaño

Malala Yousafzai: Hope in education for all

Jacob Bouwman

Amanda Gorman: Believing beyond disaster

Erik Borgman

Yahya Mahmmoud: Hope is in creating hopeful memories

Erik Borgman

Autumn Peltier: Hope carried through water

Mark van Vuuren

Can we be surprised by hope once more?

List of contributors and editors

Biography

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.