May the God of hope fill you with complete joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope . This prayer of Paul to the God of hope for an exuberance of hope on the part of his audience occurs at a very strategic point in the letter to the Romans. It brings the main body of the letter (Rom 1:18-15:13) to a hope-filled climax. It thus serves as one of the best of several indications that the theme of hope...