Hope and History Claudel Christian marriage is the union

Christian marriage is the union before God of two souls who wish

"A marble fountain…so woefully shattered that it was impossible to trace the original design from the chaos of remaining fragments

Paul Jerome Keller

the novel painstakingly plots the public and private elements which eventually exploded into war

Hope and History Claudel Christian marriage is the unionBy Josef Pieper Hope and History The future is our only end. This provocative selection from Pascals Penses reads as the epigraph to Josef Piepers 1967 Hope and History. The remark, in full, reads: The past and the present are our means; the future is our only end. With the philosophical precision and imaginative brilliance typical of all Piepers writings, Hope and History assesses the acutely urgent question of what precisely constitutes the meaning