God and Power: Counter-Apocalyptic Journeys

by Catherine Keller

Overview

The questions raised by use of American power and theadvent of an "American empire," Keller argues, reveal adeeply troubled political unconscious that is wrestling withbasic religious issues of power, terror, territory, and love.

Keller traces our response to the current national,international, and religious situation to the deeply fraughtlegacy of Christian apocalypticism. Religious and politicalfactions both left and right, she argues, read our situation inapocalyptic terms without truly understanding that complexlegacy.

After diving deeply into the multiple and conflictingpolitical and religious meanings of the Book of Revelation,she proposes a counter-apocalypse, an anti-imperial politicaltheology of love.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780800637279
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	05/26/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	196
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.50(d)

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).

Table of Contents

Preface: Theopoetic Justice

PART ONE: The United States of Apocalypse: Mapping Our Situation

The Armageddon of 9/11: Lament for the New Millennium

Preemption and Omnipotence: A Niebuhrian Prophecy

PART TWO: Of Beasts and Whores: Examining Our Political Unconscious

Territory, Terror, and Torture: Dreamreading the Apocalypse

Ms. Calculating the Endtimes: Gender Styles of Apocalypse

Eyes All Over: Liberation and Deconstruction

PART THREE: From End to Beginning: Constructing a Political Theology of Love

Everywhere and Nowhere: Postcolonial Positions

The Love Supplement: Christianity and Empire

The Democracy of Creation: Chaosmos and Counter-Apocalypse

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index