title: Hope within History
author:  Walter Brueggemann 
description: <b>Walter Brueggemann</b> is William Marcellus McPheeters Professor Emeritus of Old Testament at Columbia Theological Seminary in Decatur, Georgia. He is the world's leading interpreter of the Old Testament, and is the author of numerous books, including <i>Introduction to the Old Testament: The Canon and Christian Imagination</i> and <i>Reverberations of Faith: A Theological Handbook of Old Testament Themes</i>.
zlib_text: HOPE AND HISTORY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  JOSEF PIEPER
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Hope and History
  
  
  Five Salzburg Lectures
  
  
  Translated by Dr. David Kipp
  
  
  IGNATIUS PRESS SAN FRANCISCO
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Title of the German original:  
  Hoffnung und Geschichte:  
  Fünf Salzburger Vorlesungen  
  © 1967 Kösel-Verlag GmbH & Co., Munich
  
  
  > The text of this book reflects—in only slightly altered form—the manuscripts
  > of lectures presented by the author at the “Salzburger Hochschulwochen” in
  > August 1966.
  
  
  > The epigraph by Pascal is the concluding part of a sentence from the Pensées
  > that reads as follows: “Le présent n’est jamais notre but. Le passé et le
  > présent sont nos moyens; le seul avenir est notre objet” (Œuvres de Blaise
  > Pascal, vol. 13, ed. by Léon Brunschvicg [Paris, 1921], 89f., [no. 1721]).
  
  
  Cover by Roxanne Mei Lum
  
  
  © 1994 Ignatius Press, San Francisco  
  All rights reserved  
  ISBN 978-0-89870-465-5  
  Library of Congress catalogue number 93-78535  
  Printed in the United States of America
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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