ABOUT CATHERINE KELLER

Catherine Keller has taught for over two decades in the Theological School of Drew University and its Graduate Division of Religion. In her teaching, lecturing and writing across a multiplicity of religious and secular  settings, she practices a theology of becoming.  A project of  complicated lineage and   open future, it interweaves  evolving strands of process relationalism, poststructuralist philosophy, feminist ecopolitics.   At once constructive and deconstructive in strategy,  such theology engages questions of radical   interdependence  amidst  the spiritually charged indeterminacy that runs through the disciplines and the world.

After undergraduate studies in Heidelberg and  seminary in St. Louis, she did her doctoral work at Claremont Graduate University with John Cobb,  and sustains an active affiliation with the Center for Process Studies.  Its  pioneering  work in postmodernism pluralism  continues to inform her work.

As director of the annual Drew Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium since its inception in 2000,  she  works with  colleagues and students to foster  a hospitable local setting for far flung conversations.  Its  postcolonial polydoxy involves  confessional as well as  secular faiths.  With the collaboration of Fordham Press, the TTC is producing a distinctive series of co-edited volumes.

She meets monthly for symposia over dinner with her graduate students, an international collective finding their own theological voices.

She is currently writing The Cloud of the Impossible: a theology of inseparability.  It pursues   the themes of non-knowingness and non-separability as they enfold at once a tradition of Christian mysticism and  recent physics. The thread of radical relationalism that runs through  her work here entangles the heritage of negative theology at its deconstructive and cosmopolitical edges.

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