The Face of the Deep - A Theology of Becoming

The Face of the Deep is more than a provocative challenge to the abstract orthodoxies. It seeks to relate the swirling maternal floods of the biblical chaos to the complex interdependencies of our embodied, material beings.

List of contents

Preface. Part One - The Question of Creation 1. Mystery of the Missing Chaos 2. 'Floods of Truth': Sex, Love and Loathing of the Deep. Part Two - Orthodoxies of Nothing 3.'The Tears of Achamoth': Fathers Ex Nihilo 4. 'Mother Most Dear': Augustine's Dark Secrets 5. 'The Sterile Waters'; Barth's Nothingness that is. Part Three - Monsters of Hermeneutics 6. The Sea of Heteroglossia: The Return of the Biblical Chaos 7. 'Recesses of the Deep' Job's Comi-cosmic Epiphany 8. Leviathanic Revelations': Melville's Hermenautical Journey. Part Four - Creatio Ex Profundis 9.Bottomless Surface: When In Beginning 10. The Pluri-Singularity of Creation created God 11. Strange Attractions: formless And Void 12. Docta Ignorantia: Darkness on the Face 13. Ocean of Divinity: deep 14. Pneumatic Foam: Spirit Vibrating _

About the author

Catherine Keller

Summary

The Face of the Deep is more than a provocative challenge to the abstract orthodoxies. It seeks to relate the swirling maternal floods of the biblical chaos to the complex interdependencies of our embodied, material beings.

Product details

• Authors: Catherine Keller, Catherine (Drew University Keller, Keller Catherine
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.11.2002
• EAN: 9780415256483
• ISBN: 978-0-415-25648-3
• No. of pages: 328
• Weight: 620 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; RELIGION / General, RELIGION / Theology, RELIGION / Philosophy, Religion: general, Christianity, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Biblical Studies & Exegesis