I propose a discussion on my text "Corona Pandemic, Evil and the Hope for a Resurgent Future".

The text was published in the volume "COVID-19 and the Challenges of Trauma and Transformations. Ethics, Politics and Spirituality and Alternative Planetary Futures", edited by Prof. Ananta Kumar Giri and by Prof. Saji Varghese, Anthem Press, 2025.

In my paper, I discuss aspects of the concept of hope. I base my remarks on Jürgen Moltmann’s interpretation of the Theology of Hope. In particular, I concentrate my attention on the following points: - the centrality in Christianity of God’s promise regarding the resurrection and the renewal of the world; - hope as the Christian believer’s constitutive disposition which emerges as the consequence of God’s promise; - hope as an attitude which also regards the earthen dimension and which represents the mainspring for the wish to modify the world. In my analysis, I mainly refer to Moltmann’s book Theologie der Hoffnung. Untersuchungen zur Begründung und zu den Konsequenzen einer christlichen Eschatologie (Engl. transl.: Theology of Hope. On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology).