Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-174) and index.
Contents
Augustine and Leibniz: source and end of evil -- Kant and Schleiermacher: freedom and finitude -- Hegel and Nietzsche: alienation and meaninglessness -- A Whiteheadian theory of evil -- Subjective immortality -- Finitude and everlasting redemption: participation in God -- Freedom and temporal redemption: the historical community -- The metaphysics of the redemptive God.