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Pope Benedict XVI's second encyclical, Saved In Hope, ("Spe Salvi" in Latin) takes its title from St. Paul, who wrote, "In hope we have been saved". In this special deluxe hardcover edition of the work, the Holy Father continues a line of thought he began with his first encyclical, God is Love.
Love and Hope are closely related in the spiritual life. Love of God involves hope or trust in God. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, "The virtue of hope responds to the aspiration to happiness which God has placed in the heart of every man". Hope enables us to look to the next life, but it also inspires and purifies our actions in this life. Pope Benedict considers modern philosophies and the challenges of faith today in light of the virtue of hope.
"Confronted by today's changing and complex panorama, the virtue of hope is subject to harsh trials in the community of believers. For this very reason, we must be apostles who are filled with hope and joyful trust in God's promises. In contemporary society, which shows such visible signs of secularism, we must not give in to despair."

-- Pope Benedict XVI

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Author:	Pope Benedict XVI
Hardcover:	100 pages
Publisher:	Ignatius Press
Publication Date:	2008-02
Language:	English
ISBN:	1586172514
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Package Weight:	0.55 pounds
Average Customer Rating:	based on 12 reviews

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For all Christians Jan 19, 2009
This is a great Encyclical Letter, Pope Benedict XVI really opened my mind about the topic of Hope. Highly recommend it!

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Profound and encouraging Jan 11, 2009
Profound reading on the Hope that keeps us going in spite of the contradictions of life. Pope Benedict is a genius.

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Beautiful liberating encyclical: who does not want to be saved? Sep 13, 2008
Benedict XVI is a great theologian, friend of Men, an exceptional piety. Humanity, therefore every man, is saved in Hope. Hope this stems from a commitment to any man. God gives us Hope. Through dialogue-intelligence of heart, faith, reason-between Him and humanity, man, Hope took shape.

"Reaching the knowledge of God, the true God, then receive hope."

Benedict XVI Hope Christian place in the heart of freedoms. The Christian hope is opposed to that of Marxists, materialism, the design of the gods in Greek and Roman philosophy. The Christian hope is rooted in the male, its hopes, its weaknesses, its pursuit of happiness.

The Christian hope is not a mirage of happiness promised ultimately after death. This hope is a constant exchange between God and men. So hope this helps to save - even today, the world.

"By faith in the existence of this power-God who takes away the sin of the world, the hope of healing the world has emerged in history." Also "our hope is always essentially also hope for others is just as it is hope for me."

Prayer, St. Mary Star of our hope, guide us on the path to the kingdom of God.

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"God is the foundation of hope" Apr 21, 2008
So says Benedict XVI in Spe Salvi (paragraph 31), his second encyclical, and the entire elegant and closely reasoned essay is an argument in defense of the claim. As is typical of papal encyclicals, references in Spe Salvi tend to focus on scripture, the patristic fathers, and a handful of medieval theologians. But it also strikes me that Benedict's reflections on hope are informed as well by the 20th century's greatest Roman Catholic theologian, Karl Rahner, although Rahner is never explicitly referenced.

It's no accident, Benedict argues, that in early drawings Christ was often depicted as a philosopher. Philosophy in the early centuries of the Christian era wasn't an academic discipline so much as a search for the proper way to live. Early Christians saw Jesus as offering the best way, one that made sense of the present by looking to the future. The good news brought by Christ, writes Benedict, was thus not only informative. It was also performative: that is, it provided an incentive and purpose for a particular lifestyle.

Faith, argues Benedict, is a "reaching out towards things that are still absent," but it also "gives us even now something of the reality we are waiting for, and this present reality constitutes for us a 'proof' of the things that are still unseen" (paragraph 7). This is the basis of the hope offered by Christ: that the future, although it can't be known, is nonetheless laden with promise, and that the awareness of this affects the way in which we live in the present. Hope, then, based on faith, isn't merely a yearning for the future; it's a present mode of living that's informed by hope in a positive future (shades of Rahner here).

This hope needs something infinite to ground it, to make it genuinely worthy of hope, and that infinite something is, of course, God (again, this is reminiscent of Rahner). The hope, furthermore, must be both personal and collective: that is, hope, like faith must be that which sustains the individual and binds together the community. In showing how this double movement is possible, Benedict does an especially fine job of arguing against private models of hope (such as those endorsed by some evangelicals) on the one hand and collectivist models (such as those endorsed by secular utopians) on the other (paragraphs 13-23). In the process, he also shows that Christian hope is compatible with human freedom, which always makes the future contingent, and human suffering, which is always voluntarily shared by God (paragraphs 24-31, 35-39).

This is Benedict at his finest: holding contraries in a creative tension, rather than rejecting one for the sake of the other to achieve logical neatness at the expense of theological depth. The personal and the communal, the present and the future, uncertainty and hope: these, the antipodes of human existence, are also the compass points Benedict wisely uses to help us better understand the manner of living taught by Jesus the philosopher.

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Encyclical on Hope by Pope Benedict XVI Apr 08, 2008
Once again Pope Benedict has written a clear, insightful, inspiring document for Catholics and people of faith everywhere. "Hope" is a word bandied about these days and offered as a panacea to the world's ills. In this latest encyclical, the Holy Father shows us (through scripture reference) that hope is a freedom with responsibility. The message here, I believe, is that there is hope through worship of God. All things begin and end with Him, our Creator on whom this generation has turned its back.