@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt9m0t4j.10, ISBN = {9781451469288}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9m0t4j.10}, abstract = {“Always be ready to make your defense to anyone who demands from you an accounting for the hope that is in you” (1 Pet. 3:15). Both Metz and Schillebeeckx regularly cited this biblical charge as they struggled, over the course of four decades, to express an eschatological hope responsive to the demands of their time. What challenges and endangers Christian hope today? What is the hope that is in you? Over the course of this study, we have seen that Metz’s and Schillebeeckx’s responses to these questions were frequently in flux. Their understandings of the precise pressures confronting the modern}, bookauthor = {Steven M. Rodenborn}, booktitle = {Hope in Action: Subversive Eschatology in the Theology of Edward Schillebeeckx and Johann Baptist Metz}, pages = {309--338}, publisher = {Augsburg Fortress, Publishers}, title = {Conclusion: “An accounting for the hope…”}, year = {2014} }