On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800662768 ISBN 13: 9780800662769

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2007

Synopsis

With immediate impact and deep creativity, Catherine Keller offers this brief and unconventional introduction to theological thinking, especially as recast by process thought. Keller here takes up theology itself as a quest for religious authenticity.

Through a marvelous combination of brilliant writing, story, reflection, and unabashed questioning of old shibboleths, Keller redeems theology from its dry and predictable categories to reveal what has always been at the heart of the theological enterprise: a personal search for intellectually honest and credible ways of making sense of the loving mystery that encompasses even our confounding times.
Contents
1. Truth as Process: The Shrug and the Shibboleth
2. Revelation as Process: Speaking the Unspeakable
3. Creation as Process: 'Be This Fish'
4. Power as Process: Omnipotence or Vulnerability?
5. Christ as Process: Inviting Passion
6. Agape as Process: Just Love

About this title

About the Author:

Catherine Keller is Professor of Constructive Theology at the Theological School and Graduate School, Drew University. Her works include Apocalypse Now and Then: A Feminist Guide to the End of the World (1996, 978-0-8006-3736-1), and God and Power: Counter-Apocalyptic Journeys (2005, 978-0-8006-3727-9).

Review:

"At last: deeply Christian theology that is genuinely credible, relevant, important, and also accessible. Catherine Keller's new work is for students and lay people and for that vast company of people who have given up on the church but still care!" --John B. Cobb Jr., Claremont School of Theology

"Creative, witty, and wise, this book traces an adventure of the spirit for thinking folk, one that doesn't duck difficult questions but finds new ways through them. Readers will end up with life-nourishing insights." --Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S. J., Distinguished Professor of Theology, Fordham University

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0800662768
• ISBN 13: 9780800662769
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Keller Catherine