Professor Werner Jeanrond is Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has previously taught systematic theology at Trinity College Dublin and at the Universities of Lund, Glasgow, and Oxford. Prior to his present appointment he was Master of St Benet's Hall in the University of Oxford. His books and articles in theology and hermeneutics have been translated into many languages.

Preface
Notes for the Reader
Acknowledgements
1. Hope, Hopes and Radical Hope
2. Hoping for Salvation
3. Salvation or Reconciliation
4. Individual and Community: Three Eschatological Programmes
5. Memory and Hope
6. Death and Hope
7. Judgement, Heaven and Hell: The Power of Symbols
8. Christian Praxis of Hope and Europe's Future
9. Reasons to Hope
Select Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects