The difference between Bloch’s blasphemy philosophy and Ratzinger’s theology of hope lies in the fact that the former is the ontology of what is not yet and the latter the ontology of what is already coming. Kosian rightly described Bloch’s philosophy as „futurocentrism.” It assumes understanding the future as futurum, that is, what is predictable, what lies in the possibilities of man and is an improved extension of the present. Ratzinger does not reject the future as a futurum, although for him this futurum is carried by adventus, a future that can not be planned, a prediction that is not within the limits of human possibilities for which God’s Creator’s inexhaustible possibilities stand. Adventus does not determine human freedom, but can be accepted as a gift accepted by human freedom.
