Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Epigraph -- Table of contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Eudaimonia Gap -- Aquinas on Happiness -- The Eudaimonia Gap as Interdisciplinary Problem -- The Limits of Aristotelian Happiness -- The Limits of Neo-Aristotelian Happiness -- Philippa Foot -- Rosalind Hursthouse -- Aristotelian and Neo-Aristotelian Discontents -- The Limits of Kantian and Utilitarian Happiness -- The Normative Argument -- The Positive Side of the Eudaimonia Gap -- Chapter 2 The Theological Virtue of Hope in Aquinas -- Jürgen Moltmann's Theology of Hope -- Aquinas on Grace -- Aquinas' Starting Place for Theological Hope -- The Nature and Object of Theological Hope -- The Final and Efficient Causes of Hope -- The Relation of Hope to Faith and Charity -- The Opposed Vices of Despair and Presumption -- Hope's Gift, Certainty, and Beatitude -- The Quietist Negation of Hope -- Timothy Jackson's Critique of Theological Hope -- Hope's Contribution to Charity -- Chapter 3 Rejoicing in Hope -- The Restless Heart and the Desiderium for Ideal Happiness -- The Normative Status of the Desiderium -- Hopeless Death and Technological Hedonism -- A Life of Hopeful Rejoicing -- Chapter 4 Presumption and Moral Reform -- Emersonian Piety and Self-Sufficient Presumption -- 'Glory without Merits' -- 'Forgiveness without Repentance' -- The Nietzschean Critique of Christian Repentance -- The Gift of Fear -- Chapter 5 Despair and Consolation -- Imperfect Happiness and the Hope of the Beatitudes -- The Stoic Hope Option -- The Consolation of Hope -- Possibilities for a Hopeful Death -- Chapter 6 The Problem of Worldliness -- Worldliness in the Tradition -- Avarice, Vainglory, and Ambition -- Blessed are the Poor in Spirit -- Chapter 7 Hope and the Earthly City