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| Gabriel Marcel |
Dare We Hope, "That All Men Be Saved" is the title of an essay by Hans Urs von Balthasar. Balthasar draws a definition of hope from philosopher and Catholic convert, Gabriel Marcel. It distinguishes the virtue of Hope from a mere wish.
“Hope is essentially the open readiness of a soul that has involved itself sufficiently,
at the inward level, with the experience of communion, to assume the mental attitude
--- over and beyond mere will and cognition ---
in which it posits the living everlastingness that lends that experience both its security and pledge.”
Dare We Hope, p.62, 2014 by Ignatius Press
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