Drew Theological School is proud to host a virtual book launch event celebrating the release of Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances by Catherine Keller.
Drawing on John’s prophetic Apocalypse, Catherine Keller, George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology at Drew, offers a dreamreading of current global crises—of growing tangles of ecological and social degradation. Apocalypse means ‘unveiling,’ not “The End.” It yields not a prediction of coming events, but a parable of present peril and possibility.
During this special book launch event, a panel of the following fellow colleagues and theologians will respond after an introduction by Catherine Keller:
- Stephen Moore, Edmund S. Janes Professor of New Testament Studies, Drew Theological School
- Carol Wayne White, Presidential Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Bucknell University
- Tripp Fuller, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Theology and Science, The University of Edinburgh
- John J. Thatamanil, Associate Professor of Theology and World Religions, Union Theological Seminary
Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy and Other Last Chances will be released in April 2021.
Don’t miss this event, email bbabcock@drew.edu for the zoom link.
Facing Apocalypse Reviews
Using deep-interpretation and dreamreading, Catherine Keller succeeds in confronting the terminal forces of destruction of our present time with the message of the mysterious and terrifying Book of Revelation. A brilliant work taking the apocalypse in the double sense of the word as revelation and end-time seriously, full of surprising discoveries. –Jürgen Moltmann
This book plays wonderfully between ‘the overstated and the unspeakable,’ to reveal deep patterns between the world of John’s apocalypse and our own, calling us to the possibility of a last chance for our increasingly uninhabitable planet. –Kathryn Tanner, Yale Divinity School
Catherine Keller is one of the greatest living theologians and in Facing Apocalypse she opens up that oft-hidden and neglected text of John’s Apocalypse, horses, dragons, and all. By holding the apocalyptic text and the signs of the times in a generative and revelatory tension, Keller makes this ancient text shake and quake our present moment. Read this book and don’t be left behind. –Tripp Fuller, host, Homebrewed Christianity podcast
About Catherine Keller
Catherine Keller is the George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology in the Graduate Division of Religion at Drew University. Her recent books include
Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming; Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement; On the Mystery and
Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public.
