ABSTRACT
Granting that God will redeem evil in human lives, what does the final shape of redeemed living look like for us, and how far does God's plan to redeem evil for us extend? This chapter explores these questions, developing a Christian eschatology as part of the book's Thomistic theodicy. God finally redeems evil for human beings by affording us evil-free, heavenly lives: lives in which we freely but unfailingly cleave to God as our highest good and enjoy a resurrected, bodily existence free from any suffering. This chapter also engages the doctrine of hell. If there is a populated hell, God can and will redeem all of the evil that obtains there by ordering it to the goodness and so perfection of the world as a whole: a world that fully displays divine justice and so goodness in the end. However, it also is fully consistent for a perfectly good God to create a world in which he saves all human beings, and so redeems evil for each and every human being in the end. While we cannot know whether God will redeem evil for all of us, there is room and reason to hope so.
