The End of Evil: Process Eschatology in Historical Context

This classic work on evil and redemption is now back in print. Published: 2005 (SUNY Press, 1988)

The topic of evil and redemption has been at the center of the Western tradition since the beginning of the Christian era. In The End of Evil, Suchocki explores the source and end of evil in the thought of Augustine, Leibniz, Kant, Schleiermacher, Hegel and Nietzsche. Whitehead's philosophy is used as a creative response to the problems and possibilities raised in these earlier developments.

"This is a major piece of scholarship. It is clearly and gracefully written. Far from merely summarizing existing process approaches to eschatology, Suchocki intricately works out, for the first time, a systematic treatment of the source and end of evil." ~ Nancy Frankenberry

Table of Contents

1. Augustine and Leibniz: Source and End of Evil
2. Kant and Schleiermacher: Freedom and Finitude
3. Hegal and Nietzsche: Alienation and Meaninglessness
4. A Whiteheadian Theory of Evil
5. Subjective Immortality
6. Finitude and Everlasting Redemption: Participation in God
7. Freedom and Temporal Redemption: The Historical Community
8. The Metaphysics of the Redemptive God

Conclusion: The End of Evil