ISBN-13: 9780415256483 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 336 str.
ISBN-13: 9780415256483 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 336 str.
This complete theology reclaims creation from the watery chaos - creatio ex profundis - both as an alternative to the orthodox power-discourse of creation from nothing, and as a figure of the bottomless process of becoming. The dogma of an original creation from absolute nothingness dominates Western religious discourse as well as modern common sense. The creatio ex nihilo reflects the unquestionable presupposition of faith in an omnipotent Creator and Lord, and so in the pure and simple origin of our complicated world. The process of creativity in matters natural, social and textual is thus read as a function of power and order, an assumption which upholds Jewish, Christian and Muslim orthodoxies. But the ancient texts, says Catherine Keller, imagine a messier beginning, with no clear point of origin and no final end.