Chapter 1: The double darkness 17 Chapter 2: God's heartache : the beginning of theology 35 Chapter 3: Love as the possibility of theology 55 Chapter 4: Theology as the love of the God-man in action 78 Chapter 5: The cross and the lotus 101 Chapter 6: The seed of hope in the womb 124 Chapter 7: The rice of hope 141 Chapter 8: Suffering unto hope 158 Chapter 9: The cross in the resurrection 179 Chapter 10: A political God 200 Chapter 11: The transposition of power 222 Chapter 12: The politics of the resurrection 243 NOTES 260