Intercarnations: Exercises in Theological Possibility
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (687 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0823276465 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 264 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-10-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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She generates new and exciting outcomes and possibilities, speaking across disciplines with grace and ease.” (Lisa Isherwood University of Winchester)“Keller’s scholarship is vast and detailed. “Keller at her scholarly best. The essays in this volume move seamlessly between the history of Eastern and Western thought, as well as process theology, political theology, ecology, feminism, and recent Continental philosophy. Whatever one makes of her controversial claims, Intercarnations is an important contribution to current debates in Continental philosophy of religion.” (Brian Gregor California State University, Dominguez Hills) . Intercarnations deals with theological bodies be they female, carnal, animal, vegetal, mineral, cosmological
Catherine Keller is George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology in the Theological School and Graduate Division of Religion at Drew University. Recent books include Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement; On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process; Face ofthe Deep: A Theology of Becoming
Current theological explorations of our material ecologies cannot elude the tug or drag of the doctrine of "the incarnation." But what if we were to redistribute, rather than repress, that singular body? Might we free it--along with the bodies in which it is boundlessly entangled--from a troubling history of Christian exceptionalism?In these immensely significant, highly original essays, theologian Catherine Keller proposes to liberate the notion of the divine made flesh from the exclusivity of orthodox Christian theology's Jesus of Nazareth. According to Keller, when God is cast on the waters of a polydoxical indeterminacy, s/he/it returns manifold. According to Keller, Intercarnations offers itself as a transient trope for the mattering of our entangled difference, meaning to stir up practices of a better planetarity. Yet, in practice, materialism remains contested ground--between Marxist and capitalist, reductive and postmodern iterations. They reach out into Asian as well as inter-Abrahamic comparison and forward toward a political theology of the Earth, queerly entangling climate catastrophe in materializations resistant to every economic, social, and anthropic exceptionalism. The essays reach back into feminist, process, and postcolonial discourses, and further