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More copies of this ISBNThis title in other editionseBook editionsThe Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becomingby Catherine Keller
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:A groundbreaking, highly original work of postmodern feminist theology from one of the most important and highly regarded authors in the field. "The Face of the Deep "is a deconstruction of the Christian doctrine of creation from the idea that a transcendent Lord unilaterally created the universe out of nothing. Catherine Keller's impassioned, graceful meditation helps develop an alternative representation of the cosmic creative process. Keller draws upon Hebrew myths of creation from chaos, or the deep, engaging along the way the political and the mystical, the literary and the scientific, the sexual and the racial. In doing so she also draws upon the work of a number of postmodern and feminist continental philosophers including Heidegger, Donna Haraway and Luce Irigaray. Synopsis: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. Synopsis: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 representation of the cosmic creative process, drawing upon Hebrew myths of creation, from chaos, and engaging with the political and the mystical, the literary and the scientific, the sexual and the racial. As a landmark work of immense significance for Jewish and Christian theology, gender studies, literature, philosophy and ecology, The Face of the Deep takes our originary story to a new horizon, rewriting the starting point for Western spiritual discourse. Synopsis:Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-298) and index.
Table of ContentsPart I: Creation now and then — Mystery of the missing chaos — "Floods of truth": sex, love and loathing of the deep — Part II: Orthodoxies of nothing — "Tears of Achamoth": the fathers' ex nihilo — "Mother most dear": Augustine's dark secrets — "Sterile waters": Barth's nothingness that is — Part III: Monsters of hermeneutics — "Sea of heteroglossia": return of the biblical chaos — "Recesses of the deep": Job's comi-cosmic epiphany — "Leviathanic revelations": Melville's hermenautical journey — Part IV: Creatio ex profundis — Bottomless surface: when beginning bereshit — The pluri-singularity of creation: created God bara elohim — Strange attractions: formless and void tohu vabohu — Docta ignorantia: darkness on the face pne choshekh — Ocean of divinity: deep tehom — Pneumatic foam: spirir vibrating ruach elohim merahephet.
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