APORETIC POSSIBILITIES IN CATHERINE KELLER'SCLOUD OF THE IMPOSSIBLE

What is it about?

This is a contributing essay to the book symposium on Catherine Keller's Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement (Columbia University Press, 2015). I view her text as part of a crisis of modernity that challenges dominant theological pathways, on which certain problematic views of the human have been constructed. In my reading, Keller’s Cloud enriches humanistic thinking in the West and I explore the themes it shares with my own work in religious naturalism: there is no escape – no exit! -- from the radical relationality and the irreducible materiality that structure human existence.

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Why is it important?

I emphasize that textual strategies are mere seductive, disembodied abstractions without acknowledging the force of materiality. Materiality matters; and I explore ways in which religious naturalism demonstrates how it does.