One way to reflect more deeply on the nature of hope is to ask what it has to do with love – something Christians have been doing since St Paul lined up faith, hope and love as the three that ‘remain’ in 1 Corinthians 13. Karl Rahner gives a fascinating account of the underlying unity of hope and love when he links hope to the capacity to be open to ‘the uncontrollability of God’. According to Rahner, even on the other side of eschatological completion we will still love God in and through hope, because to hope is to await that which exceeds our grasp and remains beyond our control, and God will forever be beyond our control.[5]
Source: Thinkingfaith
Continue reading