The Christian hope as an answer to changes in the new culture in the context of the Continental Mission

Abstract

Christian hope is based on faith and feeds the people of God in their walk towards the future, moves it to progress on the road of dignity and justice in order to reach the promises of God who is to come. In the resurrection of Christ, hope does not see the eternity of heaven, but precisely the future of the earth. It is the contemporary world, which is urging the church, and particularly the Bible, an anthropological reading, a greater attention to people’s lives, to their difficulties and joys, sufferings and hopes, disappointments and faith. Therefore, the leap of hope given to the poor has been an indefinitely repeated act in the history of Christianity.