In much environmentally concerned literature, there is a burgeoning concern for the status and sustainability of human hope. Within Christian circles, this attention has often taken the form of eschatological reflection. While there is important warrant for attention to eschatology in Christian examinations of hope, I claim that to move so quickly from hope to eschatology is to confuse a species of Christian hope for a definition of hope itself; as such, it is important for theological ethicists to examine hope also from the experiential perspective of the human hoper. In particular, this is important today given the shortcomings of an eschatological focus in addressing anxieties arising due to the environmental crisis. Through examining hope as a fallible human activity, one can come to better understand hope's importance to human life, its profound ambiguity, and the potential threat that the environmental crisis poses to it.

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超越末世论：环境悲观主义与人类希望的未来

在许多与环境有关的文献中，人们越来越关注人类希望的地位和可持续性。在基督徒圈子里，这种关注常常采取末世反思的形式。虽然在基督教对希望的检验中关注末世论是有重要依据的，但我声称，如此迅速地从希望转向末世论是将基督教希望的种类与希望本身的定义混淆了。因此，对于神学伦理学家来说，从人类希望者的经验角度来审视希望是很重要的。考虑到末世焦点在解决环境危机引起的焦虑方面存在缺陷，这一点在今天尤其重要。通过将希望视为一种容易出错的人类活动，人们可以更好地理解希望对人类生活的重要性，