@inbook{10.2307/j.ctt9m0t4j.3, ISBN = {9781451469288}, URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt9m0t4j.3}, 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). Within this biblical charge, addressed to early Christian communities suffering religious persecution at the turn of the second century, we find a concentrated expression of a task that has persistently pressed itself upon Christian theology. What is that hope which would sustain Christian communities down through the centuries? How might theologians offer an account of that hope responsive to the distinct demands of their time? Although the history of Christian theology might be read profitably}, bookauthor = {Steven M. Rodenborn}, booktitle = {Hope in Action: Subversive Eschatology in the Theology of Edward Schillebeeckx and Johann Baptist Metz}, pages = {1--22}, publisher = {Augsburg Fortress, Publishers}, title = {Introduction: ʺAlways be ready …ʺ}, year = {2014} }