The Face of the Deep : A Theology of Becoming

ISBN-13: 9780415256483 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 336 str.

Catherine Keller

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Preface. Part One - The Question of Creation 1. Mystery of the Missing Chaos 2. 'Floods of Truth': Sex, Love and Loathing of the Deep. Part Two - Orthodoxies of Nothing 3.'The Tears of Achamoth': Fathers Ex Nihilo 4. 'Mother Most Dear': Augustine's Dark Secrets 5. 'The Sterile Waters'; Barth's Nothingness that is. Part Three - Monsters of Hermeneutics 6. The Sea of Heteroglossia: The Return of the Biblical Chaos 7. 'Recesses of the Deep' Job's Comi-cosmic Epiphany 8. Leviathanic Revelations': Melville's Hermenautical Journey. Part Four - Creatio Ex Profundis 9.Bottomless Surface: When In Beginning 10. The Pluri-Singularity of Creation created God 11. Strange Attractions: formless And Void 12. Docta Ignorantia: Darkness on the Face 13. Ocean of Divinity: deep 14. Pneumatic Foam: Spirit Vibrating _

O autorze

Catherine Keller