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One of the greatest virtues espoused in Scripture is the perennial idea we call "hope". It is essential to human life.  Without hope, humanity plunges into despair, and life can lose all purpose and meaning.  Hope energizes people and communities, and also produces forbearance and patience.

In this clear and accessible survey, which incorporates Asian perspectives, theologian and biblical scholar Roland Chia shows how Christian hope presses beyond the limits of both secular and religious world-views and confronts the reality of pain, suffering and death in the light of the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ. It is hope for God, and in God.

Roland Chia is Dean of Postgraduate Studies and lecturer in historical and systematic theology, Trinity Theological College, Singapore. He has a PhD King’s College, London and is author or editor of several books, including Revelation and Theology (Peter Lang) and Beyond Determinism and Reductionism (Australian Theological Forum). He has written numerous articles and reviews in international journals.