World Without End: Christian Eschatology from a Process PerspectiveMarjorie 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. |
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Contents
Deliver Us from Evil or Doing Away with Humankind? | 12 |
Eschatological Visions | 28 |
Subjective Immortality in a NeoWhiteheadian Context | 72 |
The End of Evil | 91 |
An Alternative Theory of Subjective Immortality | 113 |
Eschatology as Metaphysics under the Guise of Hope | 128 |
Evolutionary Naturalism | 150 |
Endings and Ends | 177 |
Afterwords | 197 |
Contributors | 219 |
Common terms and phrases
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Bibliographic information
| Title | World Without End: Christian Eschatology from a Process Perspective |
| Editor | Joseph A. Bracken |
| Publisher | Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2005 |
| ISBN | 0802828116, 9780802828118 |
| Length | 228 pages |
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