Time for Hope Practices for Living in Today's World

Often the religious response to historical despair is to remove hope from history and to focus on a better afterlife or to turn from ethical action to aesthetic experience. In contrast to these responses, Keshgegian reimagines hope for today's world and explores the narratives of time that shape and determine how human beings understand their lives. Time for Hope examines the logic and limitations of an end-focused worldview, exploring more cyclical and present-centered time. Keshgegian offers a remedy for the crisis of hope, not only by proposing alternative narratives, but also by suggesting specific practices and habits that will lead to thinking and living differently. Book jacket.

Flora A. Keshgegian is a theologian and author of Redeeming Memories: A Theology of Healing and Transformation. She is Faculty Ombudsperson at Brown University