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Faith, Hope, and Love

The Theological Virtues and Their Opposites

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Editors:
  1. Troy DuJardin

    1. Independent Scholar, Napa, USA

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  2. M. David Eckel

    1. Department of Religion, Boston University, Boston, USA

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  • Unique as a broad collection of scholarly perspectives on a traditionally theological topic
  • Brings together theologians, philosophers, and scholars of religion
  • Enhances our understanding of virtue and vice in general, and of these three virtures in particular
  • Chapter [9] is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Part of the book series: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life (BSPR, volume 10)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Virtue and Vice

    • Troy DuJardin
    Pages 1-7

  3. Faith and Doubt

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Faith (and Doubt?) Among the Virtues

      • Jennifer A. Herdt
      Pages 11-25

    3. Restoring Faith, Curing Doubt: Kṛṣṇa’s Instruction in the Bhagavad Gītā

      • Francis X. Clooney
      Pages 27-46

    4. Faith, Doubt, and the Buddhist Path of Enlightenment

      • Dale S. Wright
      Pages 47-59

    5. Kierkegaard on Faith, Doubt, and Uncertainty

      • C. Stephen Evans
      Pages 61-79

    6. Wilfred Cantwell Smith: Scholar, Mentor, and Humanist

      • Charles A. Kimball
      Pages 81-95

  4. Hope and Despair

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 97-97
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    2. Dante’s Commedia: from Despair to Hope to Glory

      • Peter S. Hawkins
      Pages 99-107

    3. Radical Hope, Despair and Time: Responses to Nietzsche

      • Ryan Coyne
      Pages 109-123

    4. Hopeful Pessimism: The Kantian Mind at the End of All Things

      • Andrew Chignell
      Pages 125-144Open Access
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About this book

These essays consider the three traditional theological virtues—faith, hope, and love—alongside their opposites—doubt, despair, and hate, from a scholarly perspective. The volume includes contributions not just from philosophers of religion, but also from psychologists, sociologists, and film and literature scholars, to paint a complex and nuanced picture of these virtues, both of how we might understand them, and how we can hope to embody them ourselves.  While these virtues make up a core part of the Christian tradition, the chapters here go far and wide in search of different cultural conceptions of these universal human concerns. Inquiries are made into these virtues within Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, and Islamic thought, alongside philosophers including Aristotle, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Levinas, and Murdoch. The resulting tapestry is often beautiful, sometimes horrific, but always thoroughly human.  This text appeals to students and researchers working in these fields. 

Chapter [9] is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Independent Scholar, Napa, USA

    Troy DuJardin

  • Department of Religion, Boston University, Boston, USA

    M. David Eckel

About the editors

Troy DuJardin earned his Ph.D in the Boston University Graduate Program in Religion, and served as Assistant Director of the Boston University Institute for Philosophy and Religion from 2015 to 2020. He has also served as a writing fellow in the Boston University Core Curriculum, a teaching fellow in religious studies, and an instructor in philosophy.



M. David Eckel is Professor of Religion and Director of the Institute for Philosophy and Religion at Boston University. He has received the Metcalf Award for Teaching Excellence (1998), and has served as Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Humanities (2002-5), as well as Assistant Dean and Director of the Core Curriculum. He also has served on the Visiting Committee of Harvard Divinity School.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Faith, Hope, and Love

  • Book Subtitle: The Theological Virtues and Their Opposites

  • Editors: Troy DuJardin, M. David Eckel

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in Philosophy, Religion and Public Life

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95062-0

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95061-3Published: 24 July 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95064-4Published: 24 July 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-95062-0Published: 22 July 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2352-8206

  • Series E-ISSN: 2352-8214

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VII, 252

  • Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Christian Theology

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