Introduction: Beyond Pessimism

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: Why Augustine? Why Hope? ix
4. Introduction: Beyond Pessimism 1
5. Part I. The Virtue of Hope
6. 1. A Conceptual Grammar: On Faith, Hope, and Love 17
7. 2. Against Otherworldliness: The Order of Love 32
8. 3. Between Presumption and Despair: The Order of Hope 47
9. 4. Faith in the Unseen: Trusting in Another 64
10. 5. Hope in the Unseen: Hoping in Another 99
11. Part II. The Rhetoric of Hope
12. 6. Pedagogies of Hope: Augustine and the Art of Rhetoric 115
13. 7. Into Hell and Out Again: A Structure of Encouragement in the City of God 148
14. Part III. The Politics of Hope
15. 8. Hope for the Commonwealth: Eschatology, Ecclesiology, and Politics 165
16. 9. An Example of Hope: Augustine’s Political Life in Letters 202
17. 10. Hope among the Civic Virtues: Genuine Virtues or Splendid Vices? 230
18. Conclusion: Augustine and the Politics of Hope 263
19. Conclusion: Augustine and the Politics of Hope 275
20. Notes 283
21. Bibliography 391
22. Index 421