Theopoetic Folds

Roland Faber is Kilsby Family / John B. Cobb Jr. Professor of Process Studies at Claremont Lincoln University and Claremont School of Theology, Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Claremont Graduate University, Executive Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies, and Executive Director of the Whitehead Research Project. He is the author of God as Poet of the World: Exploring Process Theology.Jeremy Fackenthal is a recent graduate of Claremont Graduate University with a PhD in philosophy of religion and theology. He is adjunct professor at Vincennes University. His fields of research include post-Holocaust philosophy and theology, critical theory and the Frankfurt School, and process philosophy and theology. He has contributed to Butler on Whitehead: On the Occasion and has been published in the journal Concrescence.

"Theopoetic Folds is a great contribution and indication that the most creative work in theology is taking place where process and postmodern ideas intersect." -- -Clayton Crockett University of Central Arkansas

• Introduction: The Manifold of Theopoetics Roland Faber and Jeremy Fackenthal POETICS Reality, Eternality, and Colors: Rimbaud, Whitehead, Stevens Michael Halewood (Theo)poetic Naming and the Advent of Truths: The Role of Poetics in the Philosophy of Alain Badiou Hollis Phelps Kierkegaardian Th eopoiesis: Selfhood, Anxiety, and the Multiplicity of Human Spirits Sam Laurent Theology as a Genre of the Blues Vincent Colapietro POLYPHONY Poiesis, Fides, et Ratio in the Absence of Relativism Matthew S. LoPresti The World as an Ultimate: Children as Windows to the World's Sacredness C. Robert Mesle The Gravity of Love: Theopoetics and Ontological Imagination Laurel C. Schneider SUB-VERSION Theopoetics as Radical Theology John D. Caputo Toward the Heraldic: A Theopoetic Response to Monorthodoxy L. Callid Keefe-Perry The Sublime, the Conflicted Self, and Attention to the Other: Toward a Theopoetics with Iris Murdoch and Julia Kristeva Paul S. Fiddes THE PLURI-VERSE Theopoetics and the Pluriverse: Notes on a Process Catherine Keller Consider the Lilies and the Peacocks: A Theopoetics of Life between the Folds Luke B. Higgins Becoming Intermezzo: Eco-Theopoetics after the Anthropic Principle Roland Faber AFTER-WORD Silence, Theopoetics, and Theologos: On the Word That Comes After John Thatamanil Notes List of Contributors Index