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Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming
This is a groundbreaking, highly original work of postmodern feminist theology from one of the most important authors in the field. The Face of the Deep deconstructs the Christian doctrine of creation which claims that a transcendent Lord unilaterally created the universe out of nothing. Catherine Keller's impassioned, graceful meditation develops an alternative representa...more
Hardcover, 336 pages
Published
March 7th 2003
by Routledge
(first published November 14th 2002)
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This beautifully (but densely) written and mystical theology is an extended meditation on the first two verses of the Bible, "When God began to create the heavens and the earth . . ." More specifically, it is a meditation on the Hebrew word tehom, deeps, depth, and a refutation of ex nihilo theology. Lost me when she began to kowtow to deconstructionist antipathy to the concept of depth. Still worth reading, though.
If you're into Hebrew and process theology you'll go nuts over this. An amazing writer and thinker.
Book of theology by my soon-to-be advisor.
Apr 20, 2013
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Sep 24, 2012
Christopher Broadwell
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“The abiding western dominology can with religion sanction identify anything dark, profound, or fluid with a revolting chaos, an evil to be mastered, a nothing to be ignored. 'God had made us master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savages and senile peoples.' From the vantage point of the colonizing episteme, the evil is always disorder rather than unjust order; anarchy rather than control, darkness rather than pallor. To plead otherwise is to write 'carte blanche for chaos.' Yet those who wear the mark of chaos, the skins of darkness, the genders of unspeakable openings -- those Others of Order keep finding voice. But they continue to be muted by the bellowing of the dominant discourse.”
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