#catherine keller

[iscariotapologist]

[third-nature]

"Mysticism means, as the word itself hints, not primarily special experiences or esoteric gifts, but a persistent attunement to the mystery. Every religion has its mystical tradition, its language of mystery, where words point towards the silence...These traditions cultivate discernment of the unknowable God -- or of what in other traditions does not bear the name God. As Lao Tzu, the great Chinese mystic of the Dao, the name for 'way,' put it over 2,500 years ago, the Dao that can be spoken is not the true Dao. All language is finite and creaturely, however inspired. Mystics groove on inspiration. But they rigorously negate, or as we say now, deconstruct, the absolutism that presumes to name the infinite like some person or entity over there; that knows God with any certainty, abstract or literal."

-Catherine Keller-

[beguines]

Suffering may be redeemable, but it is not intrinsically redemptive.

Catherine Keller, "Scoop Up the Water and the Moon Is in Your Hands: On Feminist Theology and Dynamic Self-Emptying" in The Emptying God: A Buddhist-Jewish-Christian Conversation, ed. John B. Cobb Jr. and Christopher Ives

[eelhound]

"What if beginning — this beginning, any beginning, The Beginning — does not lie back, like an origin, but rather opens out? 'To begin' derives from the old Teutonic be-ginnan, 'to cut open, to open up,' cognate with the Old English ginan, meaning 'to gape, to yawn,' as a mouth or an abyss."

- Catherine Keller, from Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming, 2003.

[benghini]

Theological Texts as Pulp Sci-fi pt 3

The Epistle to the Romans — Karl Barth

The Inner Castle — St. Teresa of Avila

War and the American Difference — Stanley Hauerwas

On the Mystery — Catherine Keller

A Godly Dream — Elizabeth Melville

[perkwunos]

Derrida’s argument with Edmund Husserl comprises another aspect of the quasi-metaphysical thought lost upon most literary-critical users of deconstruction. “Since the trace is the intimate relation of the living present to its outside, the opening to exteriority in general, to the nonproper, etc., the temporalization of sense is, from the outset, a ‘spacing.’” Thus “archewriting is at work at the origin of sense.” In other words, we find in Derrida a felicitous analog to Whitehead’s and Griffin’s arguments against the primordiality of sense perception: sense is already inscribed, interpreted, or, in Whitehead’s terms, abstracted.

Catherine Keller, “Introduction: The Process of Difference, the Difference of Process” in Process and Difference: Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist Postmodernisms

[doseofdavis]

...theology only lives if its metaphors are helping us to salvage our own world from the wreckage.

Catherine Keller, On the Mystery

[iscariotapologist]

Catherine Keller, Face of the Deep