Historical and Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Hope

Steven C. van den Heuvel (Ph.D.) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Systematic Theology at the Evangelische Theologische Faculteit (ETF), Leuven (Belgium), as well as Extraordinary Researcher of the Faculty of Theology at North-West University, South Africa. He first studied Pastoral Ministry at the Christelijke Hogeschool Ede, the Netherlands. He then went on to study Theology and Religious Studies at the ETF, receiving his Th.M., in 2010, followed by his Ph.D. in 2015, as part of a joint doctorate with the Theologische Universiteit Kampen, the Netherlands. His dissertation was entitled Bonhoeffer’s Christocentric Theology and Fundamental Issues in Environmental Ethics (Wipf & Stock 2017). Since then he has co-edited and contributed to books about leadership as well as social ethics, including The Challenges of Moral Leadership (Peeters 2016), The End of Leadership? Leadership and Authority at Crossroads (Peeters 2017), Increasing Diversity: Loss ofControl of Adaptive Identity Construction? (Peeters 2018), Theological Ethics and Moral Value Phenomena: The Experience of Values (Routledge 2018), Driven by Hope: Economics and Theology in Dialogue (Peeters 2018), and Leading in a VUCA-World: Integrating Leadership, Discernment and Spirituality (Springer 2019). In addition, he has published articles in various journals and regularly presents papers at international academic conferences.

• Part I: Historical Perspectives on Hope.- Chapter 1. Hope in Ancient Greek Philosophy (G. Scott Gravlee).- Chapter 2. Early Christian Thinking on Hope (Martin I. Webber & Jacobus (Kobus) Kok).- Chapter 3. Hope as a Virtue in the Middle Ages (Andrew Pinsent).- Chapter 4. Enlightenment Views of Hope (Claudia Blöser).- Chapter 5. Post-Kantian to Postmodern Considerations of (Theological) Hope (Ronald T. Michener).- Part II: Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Hope.- Chapter 6. Philosophy of Hope (Michael Milona).- Chapter 7. Hope in Theology (David Elliot).- Chapter 8. The Psychology of Hope: A Diagnostic and Prescriptive Account (Anthony Scioli).- Chapter 9. Hope in Economics (Emma Pleeging & Martijn Burger).- Chapter 10. Hope During Conflict (Oded Adomi Leshem & Eran Halperin).- Chapter 11. Hope in Health Care: A Synthesis of Review Studies (Erik Olsman).- Chapter 12. Ecological Hope (Michael S. Northcott).- Chapter 13. An Ontology of Human Flourishing: Economic Development and Epistemologies of Faith, Hope, and Love (Jan van Vliet).