November 7, 2007

MINNEAPOLIS – With immediate impact and deep creativity, Catherine Keller's newly released On the Mystery: Discerning God in the Process offers a brief and unconventional introduction to theological thinking, especially as recast by process thought. Keller here takes up theology itself as a quest for religious authenticity in a way that helps us probe the meaning of the divine, of divine power and compassion, of our evolving world, and of Christian life in the Spirit.

Through a marvelous combination of brilliant writing, story, reflection, and unabashed questioning of old shibboleths, Keller redeems theology from its often-dry and predictable categories to reveal what has always been at the heart of the theological enterprise: a personal search for intellectually honest and credible ways of making sense of the loving mystery that encompasses even our confounding times.

Contents
1. Truth as Process: The Shrug and the Shibboleth
2. Revelation as Process: Speaking the Unspeakable
3. Creation as Process: "Be This Fish"
4. Power as Process: Omnipotence or Vulnerability?
5. Christ as Process: Inviting Passion
6. Agape as Process: Just Love
7. Spirit as Process: World without End

"At last: deeply Christian theology that is genuinely credible, relevant, important, and also accessible. Catherine Keller's new work is for students and lay people-and for that vast company of people who have given up on the church but still care!" – John B. Cobb Jr., Claremont School of Theology.

"Creative, witty, and wise, this book traces an adventure of the spirit for thinking folk, one that doesn't duck difficult questions but finds new ways through them. Readers will end up with life-nourishing insights." – Elizabeth A. Johnson, C.S.J., Distinguished Professor of Theology, Fordham University.

Catherine Keller is Professor of Constructive Theology at the Theological School and Graduate School, Drew University. Her works include From a Broken Web: Separation, Sexism, and Self (1986), Apocalypse Now and Then: A Feminist Guide to the End of the World (1996), Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming (2003), and God and Power: Counter-Apocalyptic Journeys (2005).

On the Mystery: Discerning God in Process, By Catherine Keller, Item Number: 978-0-8006-6276-9, Specs: 5.5" x 8.5," paperback, 208 pages, Price: $16.00.

To order On the Mystery please call Fortress Press at 1-800-328-4648 or visit the Web site at http://www.fortresspress.com/.

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