Irrational Optimism
Talk 1 of 2 given at Men Meeting The Challenge Conference in 2016. The title for the Conference was ‘Hope For The Hopeless: Responding to the Challenge’
Talk Outline
- Hope and Optimism
- definitions
- universality
- Irrational Optimism
- optimism and hope
- the benefit of hope and optimism
- the irrationality of hope
- immediate vs ultimate
- pessimism and hopelessness
- the benefit of reality
- the reality of fatalistic amoral meaninglessness
- optimism and hope
- The Biblical Reality
- the fear of death
- separated, alienated and strangers no hope and without God
- but now in Christ Jesus