RT Article
T1 Hope as the Prudent Art of Potentialities: Its Significance for a Christian Economics of Human Flourishing
JF Philosophia reformata
VO 83
IS 2
SP 225
OP 245
A1 Nullens, Patrick 1964-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2018
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1683883535
AB Hope is a complex and multifaceted syndrome, an emotion as well as a virtue. It requires attention in a Christian economic paradigm oriented at justice and human flourishing. This article makes a case for this type of interdisciplinary research. Our focus lies on hope with a high (aspirational) agency and prudence. In recent economics, with increasing appreciation for relationships, well-being, and the common good, there is an openness to motivational concepts such as hope. Positive psychology has also given attention to hope as a form of well-being and resilience. We stress the importance of embedding hope in a Christian worldview in the tradition of Abraham Kuyper's Pro Rege and the work of Nicholas Wolterstorff. Christian thinking fosters the relationship between hope, faith, moral orientation, and worship as imagining a different future. Hope as a prudent art of potentiality is a transformational power, creating a society where humans can flourish and fight off anxiety and despair.
K1 Economics
K1 Hope
K1 Justice
K1 positive psychology
DO 10.1163/23528230-08302004