What are we afraid of and what can we do about it? Fear, says Gordon Livingston, is the central issue of our time. Once an adaptive emotion that protected our ancestors on the plains of Africa, it has become a corrosive influence in modern life, eroding our ability to think clearly. Exploited for power by politicians and for money by the media, it has become imbedded in the way we think about our lives. Overcoming our fearsof change, of intimacy, of loss, of the unknownconstitutes the most difficult struggle we face. In Saved by Hope, he explores the implications of developing personal virtues in the face of societal and individual fear.
