Question Seventeen

OF HOPE, CONSIDERED IN ITSELF

AFTER CONSIDERING FAITH, WE MUST NOW CONSIDER hope. We shall first consider hope itself, concerning Lwhich there are eight questions. 1. Whether hope is a virtue. 2. Whether the object of hope is eternal blessedness. 3. Whether by the virtue of hope one man can hope for the blessedness of another. 4. Whether a man may legitimately hope in man. 5. Whether hope is a theological virtue. 6. Of the distinction of hope from the other theological virtues. 7. How hope is related to faith. 8. How it is related to charity.