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    Hope incarnate : a systematic theological investigation in conversation with Jurgen Moltmann and Russel Botman
    (Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2020-04) Saaiman, Granville Monrico; Vosloo, Robert; Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Theology. Dept. of Systematical Theology and Ecclesiology.
    ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The title of this study, Incarnate Hope, suggests a possible link between hope and embodied action, between hope and transformation. This implies, among other things, that for hope to be understood adequately, in a theological way, its relationship to the incarnate Christ is of critical importance. This study provides a critical reflection in search of a Christologically grounded account of Christian hope that serves as a challenge to reductive understandings of hope in ecclesiastical and societal discourses. In the light of this emphasis, this study engages with the question: What theological insights can be gained from Moltmann and Botman in the search for the contours of an understanding of Christian hope that links hope to transformative action? The study proposes that Moltmann and Botman’s engagement with the notion of hope is productive for the development of an embodied, transformational and Christologically shaped account of hope. For this purpose, chapter 2 provide a brief analysis of how hope is often understood and how it is practiced in a reductive way, resulting in what is described as cheap hope. Chapter 3 then explores the contributions that Moltmann’s Christology, ethics and eschatology can make to a better understanding of an incarnate hope. The way in which a theology of hope and an ethics of hope is interlinked in his broader theological study receive special attention. Different but not totally dissimilar to the engagement with Moltmann, chapter 4 discusses how Botman provides a specific reflection on how the future reign of God is linked to discipleship and transformation. The final chapter (chapter 5) draws on the work of Moltmann and Botman to provide possible contours for an account of “incarnate hope” that link theology and ethics, hope and action, hope and transformation.