Description: Noted ecotheologian and feminist philosopher of religion Catherine Keller reads the feedback loop of political and ecological depredation as secularized apocalypse. She calls for dissolving the opposition between the religious and the secular in favor of a broad planetary movement for social and ecological justice.
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: In Political Theology of the Earth, Catherine Keller, one of the most brilliant and creative theologians alive, opposes the more traditional notion of political theology as dealing with the sovereign exception with her alternative political theology of a messianic ecosocial inception. In doing so, she takes the next step of integrating the important discourses of political theology with the critical ecological situation of the planet. More profoundly, she does this as a theologian, even though most scholars who write about political theology tend to be non-theologians. This is one of the most important works I have read.--Clayton Crockett, author of Radical Political Theology