Hope in relation to life and death is a topic of great importance. It seeks to make sense of history, with its evil and suffering as well as its good. Moreover, the topic forces us to give a full account of God. The doctrine of hope pushes inquirers to the intellectual and spiritual limits of theological investigation, and helps them to answer questions about the meaning and purpose of life and the nature and consequences of death.

This timely and accessible book focuses on the theology of hope in its Christian and biblical perspective, and shows how the eschatological character of hope is a balance and a tension between the past, present, and the future.