World Without End : Christian Eschatology from a Process Perspective

by Bracken, Joseph A.

• ISBN13: 9780802828118
• ISBN10: 0802828116
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-04-15
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Marjorie Suchocki's ground-breaking work "The End of Evil: Process Eschatology in Historical Context (SUNY, 1988) serves as the backdrop for a series of essays by distinguished Christian philosophers and theologians on the usefulness of process thought for the articulation of a contemporary Christian Eschatology in the light of postmodernism and contemporary natural science.

Table of Contents

Editor's Preface	vii
The End of Evil	1	(11)
Joseph A. Bracken, S.J.
"Deliver Us from Evil" or Doing Away with Humankind?	12	(16)
Jürgen Moltmann
Eschatological Visions	28	(18)
Robert Cummings Neville
The Mystery of the Insoluble Evil: Violence and Evil in Marjorie Suchocki	46	(26)
Catherine Keller
Subjective Immortality in a Neo-Whiteheadian Context	72	(19)
Joseph A. Bracken, S.J.
God's Advent/ure: The End of Evil and the Origin of Time	91	(22)
Roland Faber
An Alternative Theory of Subjective Immortality	113	(15)
Lewis S. Ford
Eschatology as Metaphysics under the Guise of Hope	128	(22)
Philip Clayton
Behind the Veil: Evolutionary Naturalism and the Question of Immortality	150	(27)
John F. Haught
Endings and Ends	177	(20)
Anna Case-Winters
"Afterwords"	197	(22)
Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki
Contributors	219	(2)
Index	221