Kasper, Walter

Offers an incisive yet comprehensive introduction to the nature and problems of Christian faith in the world.

In the changing situations of history Christians are called upon to give a public account of the hope that is them. In Faith and the Future noted theologian Walter Kasper addresses himself to just such an account for the 1980s, a decade characterized not by the utopian ideas of evolutionary and revolutionary progress of the sixties and early seventies but by an increasing fear of the future - fear, despair, and loss of hope.

An exegetical, historical, and speculative exploration of the Trinity, whose aim is "to defend the confession against challenges, to make it at least possible to discuss the doctrine with its 'cultured despisers,' and, more important, to open the doctrine to those who venerate it in faith.".