Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement

by Catherine Keller and Catherine Keller

Book Overview

The experience of the impossible churns up in our epoch whenever a collective dream turns to trauma: politically, sexually, economically, and with a certain ultimacy, ecologically. Out of an ancient theological lineage, the figure of the cloud comes to convey possibility in the face of the impossible. An old mystical nonknowing of God now hosts a current knowledge of uncertainty, of indeterminate and interdependent outcomes, possibly catastrophic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231171153
• ISBN13: 9780231171151
• Release Date: December 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"