Intercarnations : Exercises in Theological Possibility / Catherine Keller.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keller, Catherine, Author.

Contributor:

Burrus, Virginia, Contributor.

Moore, Stephen D., Contributor.

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Incarnation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Intercarnations is an outstanding collection of provocative, elegantly written essays—many available in print for the first time—by renowned theologian Catherine Keller. Affirmations of body, flesh, and matter pervade current theology and inevitably echo with the doctrine of the incarnation. Yet, in practice, materialism remains contested ground—between Marxist and capitalist, reductive and postmodern iterations. 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. Throughout eleven scintillating essays, she attends to bodies diversely religious, irreligious, social, animal, female, queer, cosmopolitan, and cosmic, highlighting the intermittencies and interdependencies of intra-world relations. According to Keller, when God is cast on the waters of a polydoxical indeterminacy, s/he/it returns manifold. For the many for whom theos has become impossible, Intercarnations exercises new theological possibilities through the diffraction of contextually diverse multiplicities. A groundbreaking work that pulls together a wide range of intersecting topics and methodologies, Intercarnations enriches and challenges current theological thinking. The essays reach back into feminist, process, and postcolonial discourses, and further back into messianic and mystical potentialities. 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. 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. In Intercarnations, with Catherine Keller as their erudite guide, readers gain access to new worlds of theological possibility and perception.

Contents:

Front matter

contents

Introduction

chapter 1. Returning God: Gift of Feminist Theology

chapter 2. “And Truth—So Manifold!”: Transfeminist Entanglements

chapter 3. Nuda Veritas: Iconoclash and Incarnation

chapter 4. Tingles of Matter, Tangles of Theology: Bodies of the New(ish) Materialism

chapter 5. Confessing Monica: Reading Augustine Reading His Mother

chapter 6. The Becoming of Theopoetics: A Brief, Incongruent History

chapter 7. Derridapocalypse

chapter 8. Messianic Indeterminacy: A Comparative Study

chapter 9. “The Place of Multiple Meanings”: The Dragon Daughter Rereads the Lotus Sutra

chapter 10. The Cosmopolitan Body of Christ. Postcoloniality and Process Cosmology: A View from Bogotá

chapter 11. Toward a Political Theology of the Earth

chapter 12. The Queer Multiplicity of Becoming

After/Word Intercarnate

acknowledgments

notes

index

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780823276493

082327649X

9780823277094

0823277097

9780823276486

0823276481

9780823276479

0823276473

OCLC:

1001313277