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| On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process
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Author: Catherine Keller
Publisher: Fortress Press
Release Date: 2008-01-01
ISBN-10: 0800662768
ISBN-13: 9780800662769
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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
For Honest Seekers
| Customer Rating: | Catherine Keller has long been one of the most brilliant and complex theologians of the current generation of post-modern thinkers. This book offers some of her best insights and guidance for anyone interested in learning to think theologically.
A great guide to what it means to speak of God with love and care and profound attention to and appreciation for life. Written with grace, it offers confidence in the journey for those who prefer open-ended understandings to constricting--and self-deluding---certainties. It opens us to the divine mystery as a great and wonderful adventure. |
deep and thought provoking
| Customer Rating: | This book opened up a new way of seeing things for me, as someone new to process theology. The only point of difficulty is sometimes Prof. Keller's style; she is an eloquent and often poetic writer, but at times slides into a dense lit-critese that I find hard to follow.
Nonetheless, I found this book to be an adventure of ideas and a compelling antidote to theological absolutisms past and present. Especially memorable for me are her conception of Creation as a self-organizing process, her argument against the traditional view of God's omnipotence, and her thoughts on the meaning of the basileia or "commonwealth of God."
I know I will want to read this book over again, at least in parts, and to seek out other works by Prof. Keller. She also provides an excellent reading guide with suggestions for further reading in the back - something I wish more academic authors would do for their readers. |
On The Mystery
| Customer Rating: | On the Mystery is one of the best books on Process Theology I have read.
Katherine Keller is a master of the use of words, a story teller sublime, and can put more content into a sentence than any author I have read.
I recommend this book highly for persons interested in progressive religious thought. Elbert D. Hoffman |
process theology 101
| Customer Rating: | | I recently finished Catherine Keller's "On the Mystery" and I was quite surprised. Surprised by the very scriptural nature of the book (with excellent and insightful exegesis), and surprised by how much I found myself in agreement with her. It is a well structured and easy to follow introduction to process theology. The reflective question section at the end of the text is most useful to aid in processing her work. Thanks to this book I now have a more clear understanding of what process theology is all about. Overall I found "On the Mystery" to be like a canapes, a delicious morsel that leaves the palette of the imagination craving for more. |
a gift for those who yearn
| Customer Rating: | in this our now of
battered hearts,
asthmatic 'spirit',
offended bodies,
starved minds:
catherine's gift
gifted to those who yearn
for truth-possibility
that 'dances like a flame' (-ck).
each page kaleidoscopic:
present-light of truth
swirling and swerving
luring us on and on
....
apologia:
i am not a poet but catherine's
poetical prose compelled me
to speak in a foreign tongue.
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