Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1888977 in Books
• Published on: 1997-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 370 pages

Kathryn Tanner, University of Chicago Divinity School
"A richly evocative exploration of apocalyptic's ambiguous
possibilities.... Inspiring in the fullest personal, political, and
religious senses of the term."

Synopsis
Feminist theologian Catherine Keller offers an interpretation of the effects of the Christian prophecy of the Apocalypse on Western history and thought. Embracing a broad range of learned disciplines, Keller traces the effects of apocalyptic thinking on movements, such as colonialism, urbanization and the current environmental crisis. Throughout, she constructs a counter-apocalypse that neither abdicates the prophetic passion for justice nor surrenders to the doom-directed paradigm of the apocalyptic habit.

About the Author
Catherine Keller is Professor of Constructive Theology at the
Theological School and Graduate School, Drew University. Her works include
Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming (2003) and Apocalypse Now and
Then: A Feminist Guide to the End of the World (1996).