On the Mystery : Discerning Divinity in Process

by Keller, Catherine

• ISBN13: 9780800662769
• ISBN10: 0800662768
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

With immediate impact and deep creativity, Catherine Keller offers this brief and unconventional introduction to theological thinking, especially as recast by process thought. Keller 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.

Author Biography

Catherine Keller is Professor of Constructive Theology at the Theological School and Graduate School, Drew University.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. ix
Open-Ended Interactivity	p. xii
Seven Signs	p. xiii
Come, My Way: Theology as Process	p. 1
Boarding Call	p. 1
The Absolute and the Dissolute	p. 2
Is God the Problem?	p. 5
Christian Right, Planetary Wrong	p. 6
Honest to God	p. 7
Trails and Trials	p. 9
Theology as Truth-Process	p. 10
Touch of Truth	p. 11
Calling God	p. 14
Speaking of the Mystery	p. 17
Attractive Propositions	p. 20
Process Theology	p. 21
Such a Way	p. 24
Pilate's Shrug: Truth as Process	p. 27
Torturous Truth	p. 28
Johannine Testimonies	p. 30
Truth Wells	p. 31
Way or Wall?	p. 33
Christian Shibboleths	p. 35
Johannine Vines	p. 35
Truth in Relation: The Risk of Trust	p. 36
"Hereticks in the Truth"	p. 38
Truth or Terror	p. 40
In Flesh and in Truth	p. 42
Be This Fish: Creation in Process	p. 45
Fishy Grace	p. 45
Ex Nihilo or Nihilism?	p. 47
A Magnificent Mess	p. 48
Lost Chaos of Creation	p. 50
Panentheism	p. 52
Over Our Heads	p. 53
A Luminous Darkness	p. 54
Of Wombs and Warriors	p. 56
Genesis and Genetics	p. 59
Self-Organizing Creation	p. 61
Male, Female, and Talkative	p. 63
Kabash the Earth?	p. 65
Seascapes of Grace	p. 66
After Omnipotence: Power as Process	p. 69
Power Flashes	p. 69
The Logic of Omnipotence	p. 70
Crashing Waves	p. 72
Job's Leviathanic Epiphany	p. 74
Calvin's Decretum Horribile	p. 76
Sin and Power	p. 79
Blameworthy or Responsible?	p. 81
Thorny Confession	p. 83
Double Crossed	p. 85
God of Letting Be	p. 87
Risk the Adventure: Passion in Process	p. 91
In Control or in Love?	p. 94
Enemy Love: Not for Wimps	p. 95
Sin and Love	p. 97
God in Process: Lure and Response	p. 98
Arise, My Love	p. 101
"Invisible Attractions": Law and Love	p. 104
Between Eros and Agape	p. 107
Sticky Justice: Com/Passion in Process	p. 111
Liberating Com/Passion	p. 111
Just Love	p. 113
Network of Mutuality	p. 115
Agapic Justice	p. 117
Community of Compound Passions	p. 118
Love, Politics, Enemies	p. 121
August Wisdom	p. 122
Love Rhythm	p. 124
Dispassion or Compassion?	p. 125
Moved Mover	p. 127
Sticky Gift	p. 129
Jesus the Parable: Christ as Process	p. 133
Missing Jesus	p. 134
Creedal Omission	p. 135
Revealing or Concealing?	p. 137
In Joy: Discerning Priorities	p. 139
Overpaid Idlers: Economics of the Basileia	p. 140
Heaven, Hell, and Here	p. 143
Salvation in Process	p. 146
Fermenting Possibility	p. 148
The Lure of a Higher Christology	p. 151
Christ in Process	p. 152
Becoming Parables	p. 154
Open Ending: Spirit in Process	p. 159
Insoluble Theology	p. 159
Hot Tongues	p. 161
WMD: Word of Mass Destruction	p. 164
Hope as Counter-Apocalypse	p. 166
Double-Edged S/Word	p. 168
Cases of Spirit	p. 170
Absolution, Dissolution, Resolution	p. 173
Acknowledgments	p. 177
Teaching Resources	p. 179
Notes	p. 187
Index	p. 203
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