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A theologian with a particular interest in eschatology
among a wide range of issues in contemporary theology
and religious studies about which she has written,
Catherine Keller is a professor of constructive
theology in the Theological and Graduate Schools
of Drew University. She studied at the University
of Heidelberg, earned a master's degree from Eden
Theological Seminary in St. Louis, and received
a Ph.D. in philosophy of religion and theology
in 1984 from the Claremont Graduate School, where
she worked with John B. Cobb, Jr. in the Center
for Process Studies. After teaching theology for
three years at Xavier University in Cincinnati,
Ohio, she joined the Drew faculty in 1986 and
was named to her current position in 1998. The
recipient of several teaching awards, Dr. Keller
has received research support from the Association
of Theological Schools and the Lilly Foundation.
She is a member of the executive committee of
the American Theological Society. In addition
to more than sixty articles published in scholarly
journals and essays in volumes of collected works,
she is the co-editor (with Anne Daniell) of Process
and Difference: Between Cosmological and Poststructuralist
Postmodernism (2002) and (with Mayra Rivera
and Michael Nausner) of Postcolonial Theologies:
Divinity, Hybridity and Empire (2004) and
the author of five other books, including, From
a Broken Web: Separation, Sexism and Self
(1986), Apocalypse Now and Then: A Feminist
Guide to the End of the World (1996), and
most recently, Face of the Deep: A Theology
of Becoming, an exploration of the repressed chaos
in the biblical creation narrative, which
was published last year by Routledge. A new study,
God and Power: Counter-Apocalyptic Journeys,
will be released next spring by Fortress. |