Into this contracted spacetime of racist convulsion, ecological disaster, and nuclear machismo, Keller drops a political theology that both introduces and breaks open the field. Framed as a transdisciplinary triptych, <i>Political Theology of the Earth </i>summons an enraged, counter-creative swarm to counter the politics of exception with multifarious practices of inception.

- Mary-Jane Rubenstein, author of <i>Pantheologies: Gods, Worlds, Monsters</i>,

With marvelous economy and scholarly brilliance, Catherine Keller offers here the beauty and complexity of her practical wisdom. It is no easy thing to guide others into uncertainty and unsaying as modes of theological and political understanding, let alone an activism that takes seriously the truly vulnerable in and of the earth. This book is an indispensable introduction to political theology, one in which our understanding of divinity can be neither reduced to human politicking nor exempted from the urgent crises of our time.

- Laurel C. Schneider, author of <i>Beyond Monotheism: A Theology of Multiplicity</i>,

In <i>Political Theology of the Earth</i>, Catherine Keller, one of the most brilliant and creative theologians alive, opposes the more traditional notion of political theology as dealing with the sovereign exception with her alternative political theology of a messianic ecosocial inception. In doing so, she takes the next step of integrating the important discourses of political theology with the critical ecological situation of the planet. More profoundly, she does this as a theologian, even though most scholars who write about political theology tend to be non-theologians. This is one of the most important works I have read.

- Clayton Crockett, author of <i>Radical Political Theology</i>,

Perhaps only Catherine Keller could publish a work of political, theology, process theology, and eco-theology that is also highly readable. Keller is our era’s poet theologian, modeling a way to push through academic jargon and out the other side with prose that pops. For this reason alone, it’s worth picking up this book. . . . Keller makes one of the most compelling cases yet for a progressive theology that doesn’t recede with the overtaking of secularity but is more precisely revealed in the undertaking of it.

- Clint Schnekloth, The Christian Century

Keller's political theology of the Earth is breathtaking in the scope of the resources it draws upon and the depths of its analysis...Just read it, and when you fail, enfold yourself into the cosmic process and read it again. That's certainly what I'm going to do.

- Marian Ronan, National Catholic Reporter

[A] galvanizing new book...

- Marion Ronan, New York Theological Seminary, National Catholic Reporter

Keller argues that there is a way of thinking with the resources of Christianity that allows one to hope.

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Recommended.

Choice

[<i>Political Theology of the Earth</i>] calls upon eco-activists to explore the spiritual affinities between us in order to respond to the emergencies of the Anthropocene. This is surely an evocative and thought-provoking book particularly in the current times when the globe faces threats and ideological warfare of various kinds be it terrorism, racism, casteism and gender violence or popular resistance against tyrannical governments among such others.

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