I just read a quote from Moltmann cited by an educational colleague of mine, and it resonated with my soul. (thanks, Laurie). I must read more Moltmann…
If faith thus depends on hope for its life, then the sin of unbelief is manifestly grounded in hopelessness. To be sure it is usually said that sin in its original form is man’s wanting to be as God. But that is only one side of sin. The other side of such pride is hopelessness, resignation, inertia and melancholy….Temptation then consists not so much in the titanic desire to be as God, but in weakness, timidity, weariness, not wanting to be what God requires of us. [Jurgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology, 22.]
