Preface Introduction, or When a body in pain calls for hope Part I: Existing voices on pain and hope
1. The biomedical body in pain
2. The psychological mind of hope Interim conclusion 1, or The absence of a hoping person in pain
3. The body in pain in traditional, ecumenical theologies of hope
4. The body in pain in a modern, Reformed theology of hope Interim conclusion 2, or God as the beginning and end of hope PART II: New voices on hope and pain
5. Empirical approaches to hope and pain
6. Lives marked by pain and fuelled by hope: New narratives
7. Conceptualising hope at the intersection of theology, psychology and medical narrative Closing synopsis, or When hope dwells in a body in pain Appendix Bibliography. Index