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January 14, 2026Open Access

Rethinking Hope: Inadequacy, Pain, and Relational Persistence (A Conceptual Essay Across Psychology and Theology)

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FAFrederick Ose Aikhaituamen

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This conceptual essay examines the nature of hope through inadequacy and pain, suggesting new interdisciplinary insights.

Key Points

  • The aim is to reconceptualize hope as a multifaceted phenomenon that integrates inadequacy, pain, and relational connections.
  • Conceptual analysis based on interdisciplinary perspectives from psychology and theology.
  • Discussion of lived experiences related to hope and its paradoxical nature.
  • Articulation of a new framework for understanding hope.
  • Hope is redefined as a complex interplay of awareness of inadequacy, endurance of pain, and relational meaning.
  • The essay argues that hope is not just an emotion, but a form of conscious endurance influenced by relationships.
  • Encourages interdisciplinary dialogue around the implications of this new understanding of hope.

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Frederick Ose Aikhaituamen (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/696718c687ba607552bb8b4ehttps://doi.org/10.17605/osf.io/852hs
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