Faith, Hope & Love

Three separate books in one edition, this volume brings together Josef Pieper's famous treatises on the theological virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love. Published as separate works over a thirty-seven year period, these treatises are brought together in English for the first time. The first of the three, On Hope, was written in 1934 in response to the general feeling of despair of those times. On Faith was derived from a series of lectures he gave in the late 1950s and early 1960s. His most difficult work, one that he struggled with for years—and almost abandoned—was his work On Love. Pieper considered this the most important book he had written. He discusses not only the theological virtue of caritas-agape, but also eros, sexuality, and even "love" of music and wine.