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Hope

In Our Time: Philosophy

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The Early Middle Ages and the Modern Era of Hope

The two basic strands of the christian hope. On the one hand, for the renewal of the earth,. The coming again of christ. This feeds into all t epocalyptic myths that erupt whenever there is a great moment of crisis in history. And on the other hand, the idea that because we were made for something that is not possible within our spatio temporal existence - and to arise above that existence into a heavenly one. Robert son was the idea of hope being changed by new dreams of the future as the urges pushed on. Yes, i think you can trace through the development of ideas of hope and change over time as we move beyond ther christian period, for example.

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