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The idea that hope is a virtue is found in the Bible. The case for hope as a virtue was argued by Thomas Aquinas and by the medieval Jewish philosopher Joseph Albo. This chapter explores Aquinas and Albo's teachings about hope.
Jewish hope, articulated in the Torah, prophets, and writings, and refracted through the rabbinic literature, is a complex and variegated concept. Jewish hope and biblical hope have to do both with what is termed ‘conserving hope’ as well as with emancipatory hope.
10 gru 2020 · Hope as a Philosophy. The commitment to hope, moving ourselves forward from darkness into light, was one of the big gifts of Jewish civilization to the world.
It considers how the biblical religions, Christianity and Judaism, both resisted and were co-opted by modern hope. The emphasis here is on how Jewish and Christian thinkers conceptualized the relationship between hope and politics.
9 lis 2024 · If a recurrent theme in Jewish history is alienation and resultant suffering, Operetta, as an expression of Jewish culture, offers a curious paradox: a people, the Jews, who have endured...
8 mar 2017 · Even in Saint Paul’s argument for the extension of the Christian community beyond the Jewish law, hope plays a central role. Paul states that we can only hope for what is uncertain (Romans 8:24; see also Augustine, City of God, book XIX, §IV, 1960: 139). Nevertheless, such hope can be the product of the experience of suffering, if this ...
Jews gave it the idea of hope. The whole of Judaism – though it would take a book to show it – is a set of laws and narratives designed to create in people, families, communities and a nation, habits that defeat despair.
