Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be coopted by the managers of this age

The power of the future lies not in the hands of those who believe in scarcity but of those who trust God's abundance.

God will recruit as necessary from the human cast in order to reorder human history.

On the other hand, hope is subversive, for it limits the grandiose pretension of the present, daring to announce that the present to which we have all made commitments is now called into question.

We do not live by what is possessed but by what is promised.

If the church is to be faithful it must be formed andordered from the inside of its experience and confession and not by borrowing from sources extenal to its own life.

Hope does not need to silence the rumblings of crisis to be hope.