Spe Salvi: In Hope We were Saved

ENCYCLICAL LETTER
SPE SALVI
OF THE SUPREME PONTIFF
BENEDICT XVI
TO THE BISHOPS
PRIESTS AND DEACONS
MEN AND WOMEN RELIGIOUS
AND ALL THE LAY FAITHFUL
ON CHRISTIAN HOPE

• Introduction

• Faith is Hope

• The concept of faith-based hope in the New Testament and the early Church

• Eternal life – what is it?

• Is Christian hope individualistic?

• The true shape of Christian hope

“Settings” for learning and practising hope

• Prayer as a school of hope

• Action and suffering as settings for learning hope

• Judgement as a setting for learning and practising hope

• Mary, Star of Hope