Table of Contents

Preface. Part One - The Question of Creation 1. Mystery of the Missing Chaos 2. 'Floods of Truth': Sex, Love and Loathing of the Deep. Part Two - Orthodoxies of Nothing 3.'The Tears of Achamoth': Fathers Ex Nihilo 4. 'Mother Most Dear': Augustine's Dark Secrets 5. 'The Sterile Waters'; Barth's Nothingness that is. Part Three - Monsters of Hermeneutics 6. The Sea of Heteroglossia: The Return of the Biblical Chaos 7. 'Recesses of the Deep' Job's Comi-cosmic Epiphany 8. Leviathanic Revelations': Melville's Hermenautical Journey. Part Four - Creatio Ex Profundis 9.Bottomless Surface: When In Beginning 10. The Pluri-Singularity of Creation created God 11. Strange Attractions: formless And Void 12. Docta Ignorantia: Darkness on the Face 13. Ocean of Divinity: deep 14. Pneumatic Foam: Spirit Vibrating _

About the Author

Catherine Keller

Reviews

"Face of the Deep challenges one of the oldest of orthodox beliefs: that God created the world out of nothing. Remaining close to the Bible, and encompassing Augustine and Barth, Genesis and Moby Dick in a single, lucid gaze, Catherine Keller develops a complelling theology of creation that is also a profound theology of living.' Kevin Hart, The University of Notre Dame 'Biblical hermeneutics, postmodern science, feminist process theology - and so much more - roil the deep waters of this profound new creation theology. A wonderful display of erudition, wisdom and playfulness from Catherine Keller at her engaging best.' - Kathryn Tanner, University of Chicago Divinity School