ABSTRACT
The Christian hopes for the Future of Christ in nobis; and the particular content determines not only the shape that Christian hope has, but also the form of hope's active expression in one's life lived with faith in and love for this coming One. Karl Barth admits that the crucified Jesus is the partisan of the poor and is victimised because of his desire for justice. Time is given so that Christ's glory may be manifested in his prophetic work; in other words, that falsehood may be transformed into truth, and non-Christians may be called into the Christian community. In fact, Barth goes so far as to proclaim that "Eschatology, rightly understood, is the most practical thing that can be thought". For although human steps will always be unlike God's activity because of both human finitude and sin, and therefore not responsible for the eschatological transformation, they also run in parallel to it.
