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World Without End: Christian Eschatology from a Process Perspective
 
 
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World Without End: Christian Eschatology from a Process Perspective [Hardcover]

Joseph A. Bracken (Editor)
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April 2005
Marjorie Suchocki’s groundbreaking work "The End of Evil" provides the backdrop for this high-powered discussion of the usefulness of process thought for understanding Christian eschatology in light of postmodernism and contemporary natural science.

Taking as their starting point the metaphysics of Alfred North Whitehead as well as Suchocki’s creative adaptation of his thought, nine distinguished philosophers and theologians look hard at the theoretical assumptions of Christian eschatology and ask if process thought provides a more suitable language for restating these classic teachings today. The opinions expressed here range from affirmations of process theology to direct challenges to the legitimacy of framing Christian eschatology in this way. The book also includes an important afterword in which Suchocki responds to her colleagues and critics, especially those proposing new process-oriented understandings of Christian eschatology.

Both engaged and engaging, "World without End" will encourage natural scientists, classically trained Christian theologians, and process theologians to rethink their basic presuppositions about the end of the world and the future of the human race.

Contributors: Joseph A. Bracken, S.J., Anna Case-Winters, Philip Clayton, Roland Faber, Lewis S. Ford, John F. Haught, Catherine Keller, Jürgen Moltmann, Robert Cummings Neville, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki


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Joseph A. Bracken, S.J., is professor emeritus of theology at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio. He is also the author of "The One in the Many: A Contemporary Reconstruction of the God-World Relationship" (Eerdmans).

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  • Hardcover: 228 pages
  • Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (April 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0802828116
  • ISBN-13: 978-0802828118
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Process Eschatology Critiqued and Defended, March 29, 2009
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This review is from: World Without End: Christian Eschatology from a Process Perspective (Hardcover)
In this work, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki's process eschatology (as outlined in her book entitled "The End of Evil") is critiqued by several prominent process theologians. Overall, I found the essays to be very engaging and thought-provoking. That being said, several essays stand out:

- "The End of Evil" by Joseph Bracken. This essay provides a good summary to Suchocki's process eschatology.

- "Subjective Immortality in a Neo-Whiteheadian Context" by Joseph Bracken. Here Brackens draws inspiration from Suchocki's work and outlines his metaphysics of intersubjectivity which allows not only for objective immortality but also for subjective immortality.

- "God's Avent/ure: The End of Evil and the Origin of Time" by Roland Faber. This is a gem! Here Faber basically tackles the paradox of time - i.e "How can that which is without beginning and end have both a beginning and an end?"

- "An Alternate Theory of Subjective Immortality" by Lewis Ford. Here Ford provides a trenchant analysis of what constitutes subjectivity and superjectivity (i.e. objectivity) in Whitehead's scheme.

I highly recommend this for the serious student of process theology.
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The End of Evil by Marjorie Suchocki is an imaginative reconstruction of the metaphysical scheme of Alfred North Whitehead with particular attention to the problem of evil: why it arises within the cosmic process and how it can be overcome both within time and in the ongoing divine life. Read the first page
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New York, Marjorie Suchocki, Alfred North Whitehead, Charles Hartshorne, New Testament, Grand Rapids, John Polkinghorne, Final Fact, Process Studies, Adventures of Ideas, Jurgen Moltmann, The Free Press, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Thomas Aquinas, William James, Book of Revelation, Joseph Bracken, Cambridge University Press, Catherine Keller, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, Miroslav Volf, New Haven, Trinity Press International, Westminster Press, Basic Books
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