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415 – Hypatia was lynched by a mob of Christians. 430 – Saint Augustine died in Hippo while the city was under siege by the Vandals. 526 – Boethius was strangled on the orders of the Ostrogoth king Theodoric by whom he was employed. 1141 – Judah Halevi was killed on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem.
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.
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.
24 kwi 2017 · According to Frankl’s observation regarding a higher death rate after Christmas, hope is a choice. Hope, it appears, is capable of sustaining life. While every external factor may root against you, one single act of internal defiance can counteract it all.
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.
2 lip 2009 · The book explores the religious origins of the concept of hope in the Hebrew Scriptures, New Testament, rabbinic literature, and Augustine. It traces the roots of both the praise of hope, in Jewish and Christian thought, and the criticism of hope in Greco-Roman thought and in the tradition of philosophical pessimism.
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...
