God And Power

Preface: Theopoetic Justice

PART ONE: The United States Of Apocalypse: Mapping Our Situation
1.The Armageddon Of 9/11: Lament For The New Millennium
2.Preemption And Omnipotence: A Niebuhrian Prophecy

PART TWO: Of Beasts And Whores: Examining Our Political Unconscious
3.Territory, Terror, And Torture: Dreamreading The Apocalypse
4.Ms. Calculating The Endtimes: Gender Styles Of Apocalypse
5.Eyes All Over: Liberation And Deconstruction

PART THREE: From End To Beginning: Constructing A Political Theology Of Love
6.Everywhere And Nowhere: Postcolonial Positions
7.The Love Supplement: Christianity And Empire
8.The Democracy Of Creation: Chaosmos And Counter-Apocalypse

Acknowledgments
Notes
Index

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The questions raised by use of American power and the advent of an “American empire,” Keller argues, reveal a deeply troubled political unconscious that is wrestling with basic religious issues of power, terror, territory, and love.

Keller traces our response to the current national, international, and religious situation to the deeply fraught legacy of Christian apocalypticism. Religious and political factions both left and right, she argues, read our situation in apocalyptic terms without truly understanding that complex legacy.

After diving deeply into the multiple and conflicting political and religious meanings of the Book of Revelation, she proposes a counter-apocalypse, an anti-imperial political theology of love.