Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki

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Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki (* 1933 in Boston ) is a retired American professor of theology at Claremont School of Theology . She is also co-director of the Center for Process Studies in Claremont.

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Suchocki was born into a working class family and grew up in a suburb of Boston. Through the action of Billy Graham , she found the way to evangelical Protestantism. At twenty-one, she married her husband, John Suchocki. At first the couple lived in Enid ( Oklahoma ), where her husband was stationed at Vance Air Force Base. Between 1955 and 1960 she gave birth to three children. In 1965, she went to college again as an evening student . She received her BA in Philosophy from Pomona College in 1970 and her MA and PhD in Religion from Claremont Graduate School in 1974 . After their marriage divorced, she taught at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary from 1977 to 1983 . From 1983 to 1990 she was Professor of Systematic Theology and Dean at Wesley Theological Seminary in Washington, DC

In 1990 Suchocki returned to the Claremont School of Theology, where she held the endowed chair of theology and joint appointment at the Claremont Graduate School until her retirement in 2002. In 1996 and 1999 she was visiting professor at Vanderbilt University and in 1992 at Ruprecht-Karls-University in Heidelberg .

Suchocki has been director of the Whitehead International Film Festival since 2001 . Together with John B. Cobb and David Ray Griffin, she is considered to be one of the leaders in the field of process theology .

Publications (selection)

  • God Christ Church: A Practical Guide to Process Theology. Crossroad, 1982 (227 p.), ISBN 0-8245-0464-X , revised ed. 1989 (263 p.): ISBN 0-8245-0970-6
  • The End of Evil: Process Eschatology in Historical Context. State University of New York Press, 1988, ISBN 0-88706-724-7
  • The Fall to Violence: Original Sin in Relational Theology. Continuum International, 1995, ISBN 0-8264-0860-5
  • Trinity in Process: A Relational Theology of God. Together with Joseph A. Bracken, Continuum International, 1996, ISBN 0-8264-0878-8
  • In God's Presence: Theological Reflections on Prayer. Chalice Press, 1996, ISBN 0-8272-1615-7
  • The Whispered Word: A Theology of Preaching. Chalice Press, 1999, ISBN 0-8272-4239-5
  • Divinity and Diversity: A Christian Affirmation of Religious Pluralism. Abingdon Press, 2003, ISBN 0-687-02194-4

Web links

  • Photography by Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki [3]
  • Burke Lectureship: Marjorie Suchocki [4]

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Gary J. Dorrien : The Making of American Liberal Theology: Crisis, Irony, and Postmodernity 1950-2005. Westminster John Knox Press, Louisville / London 2006, ISBN 978-0-66422-356-4 , p. 255 ( [1] on books.google.de)
  2. ^ The Center for Process Studies of Claremont School of Theology. Faculty and Staff. [2]
personal data
SURNAME Suchocki, Marjorie Hewitt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American theologian
DATE OF BIRTH 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Boston