Images of Hope: Imagination as Healer of the Hopeless

by William F. Lynch SJ

This is a book about hope. Part 1 is a compact but necessarily limited attempt to describe the actual structure and concrete forms of hope and hopelessness; Part 2 is an exploration of a psychology of hope, the beginning of an investigation of what psychic forms and dynamisms move most toward hope and against hopelessness; and Part 3 is an analogous effort to suggest the outlines of a metaphysics of hope.

Genres: Psychology

320 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1974

Reviews

[Bryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

To my mind, this book by the wondrously insightful William Lynch is winsomely and wisely applied Kierkegaardian "Christian psychology." In other words, this book truly reveals the human condition and ultimately leads to the hope of faith (or faith of hope) which enables a person to will to be one's finite human (not "angelic") self by coming to rest transparently in the power (God) that established it." Lynch's "Images of Hope,"along with his "Images of Faith," present the revolution humankind needs to follow. The pervasive hopelessness and despair of humanity nearly sixty years later testify to the fact that the revolution of "the city of man" has largely been unheard and thus gone unheeded.

[David Withun · Rating 4 out of 5]

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