Of the three theological virtues, hope has been the least explored. Yet it is the most poetic of the virtues, at least in the sense that it implies the three poles of communication: the enunciator, the utterance and the receiver. This article summarizes Bossuet's definition of hope, which expresses together the trembling of the human condition and its consolation, its separation and its greatness, the infinite measure of divine Hope and the deceptive excess of human hope.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques