Description: A progressive reading of the history of the unknown that projects a hopeful future.
Brief description: Catherine Keller (PhD, Philosophy of Religion and Theology, Claremont Graduate School) is Professor of Theological and Philosophical Studies at Drew University. She is the author of Cloud of the Impossible (Columbia, 2014), The Face of the Deep (Routledge, 2003), On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process (Fortress, 2007), God and Power: Counter-Apocalyptic Journeys (Augsburg, 2005), and Apocalypse Now and Then (Augsburg, 2004); the coauthor (with Elias Ortega-Aponte) of Common Goods: Economy, Ecology, and Political Theology (Fordham, 2015); and the coeditor (with Laurel Schneider) of Polydoxy: Theology of Multiplicity and Relation (Routledge, 2010), (with Anne Daniell) of Process and Difference: Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernisms (SUNY, 2012), (with Laurel Kearns) of Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth (Fordham, 2009), and (with Virginia Burrus) of Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline (Fordham, 2009); she has also contributed to An Insurrectionist Manifesto (Columbia, 2016) and Reimagining the Sacred (Columbia, 2015).
Review Quotes: A sizzling, citable line on every page, this is Catherine Keller at her poetic, theopoetic, theological best. She meditates not the fire of the apocalypse, nor the water of the deep, but the cloud--of the impossible which precipitates the possible itself, the entanglement of knowing and nonknowing, of the relational and what overflows relation, of the enfolding and the unfolding. For her, the name of God is not the name of a cause or a guarantee but the lure of something that needs to be made and done. From philosophy and theology to physics and ecology--a sensational tour de force from a major theological voice.--John D. Caputo, Syracuse University and Villanova University