Apophatic Bodies: Negative Theology, Incarnation, and Relationality

Contributors

C O N T R I B U T O R S Chris Boesel is Associate Professor of Christian Theology at the Theological School and Graduate Division of Religion of Drew University. His publications include Risking Proclamation, Respecting Difference: Christian Faith, Imperialistic Discourse, and Abraham (2008). He is currently working on an intervention in postmodern theology, tentatively titled The Postmodern ‘‘Turn’’ to Religion as Return to Modernity. Virginia Burrus is Professor of Early Church History at Drew University. Her publications include ‘‘Begotten, Not Made’’: Conceiving Manhood in Late Antiquity (2000), The Sex Lives of Saints: An Erotics of Ancient Hagiography (2004), Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline (co-edited with Catherine Keller) (2006), Saving Shame: Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects (2008), and Seducing Augustine (coauthored with Mark Jordan and Karmen MacKendrick) (forthcoming). John D. Caputo is Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion and Humanities and Professor of Philosophy at Syracuse University. His most recent publications include The Weakness of God: A Theology of the Event (2006), winner of the AAR book award in Constructive Theology, and What Would Jesus Deconstruct? (2007), winner of the ForeWord Magazine award for the best book in philosophy in 2007; and After the Death of God (with Gianni Vattimo). He is currently preparing a book on the theology of the flesh. Philip Clayton is Ingram Professor of Theology at the Claremont School of Theology. His publications include Mind and Emergence: From Quantum 466 兩 c ont r i but o rs to Consciousness (2004), Adventures in the Spirit: God, World, Divine Action (2008), and In Quest of Freedom: The Emergence of Spirit in the Natural World (forthcoming). T. Wilson Dickinson is a doctoral candidate in the department of Religion at Syracuse University. His work focuses on nineteenth- and twentiethcentury continental philosophy and Christian theology, particularly as they address issues that arise from globalization. His dissertation is titled ‘‘Specters of Truth: Exercising Philosophy and Theology.’’ Rose Ellen Dunn is completing her Ph.D. in New Testament and Early Christianity at Drew University. Her research interests currently center on the theological possibilities of phenomenology and the rich potential for these possibilities to enter into conversation with the biblical text. Her dissertation is titled ‘‘Finding Grace with God: A Phenomenological Reading of the Annunciation.’’ Roland Faber is Professor of Process Theology at the Claremont School of Theology, Professor of Religion and Philosophy at the Claremont Graduate University, and Co-Director of the Center for Process Studies and Executive Director of the newly founded Whitehead Research Project (2007). His publications include Gott als Poet der Welt: Anliegen und Perspektiven der Prozesstheologie (2003), Prozesstheologie: Zur ihrer Würdigung und kritischen Erneuerung (2000), and God as Poet of the World: Exploring Process Theologies (2008). Sigridur Gudmarsdottir has taught theology at the University of Winchester , U.K., and Drew University. She currently works as an ordained minister and independent scholar in her native country, Iceland. Her research interests are in the field of constructive theology with special interests in ecofeminist, poststructuralist and mystical theology. She is currently working on a book on Paul Tillich and the abyss of God. Krista E. Hughes is Assistant Professor of Theological Studies at Hanover College (Havover, Indiana). A constructive theologian, she works at the intersection of feminist and process theologies, history of doctrine, and continental philosophy. Her dissertation, titled ‘‘The Dance of Grace: A c ont r i but o rs 兩 4 67 Feminist Theology of Reciprocity,’’ explored questions of agency, gift, corporality, and aesthetics in the movement of grace. She is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled In the Flesh: A Feminst Vision of Hope. Catherine Keller is Professor of Constructive Theology in the Theological School and Graduate Division of Religion of Drew University. Her publications include From a Broken Web: Separatism, Sexism, and Self (1986), Apocalypse Now and Then: A Feminist Guide to the End of the World (1996), Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming (2003), God and Power: CounterApocalyptic Journeys (2005), and On the Mystery: Discerning God in Process (2008). She has also co-edited several volumes in the present Fordham Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia series. Karmen MacKendrick is Professor of Philosophy at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York. Her publications include Conterpleasures (1999), Immemorial Silence (2001), Word Made Skin: Figuring Language at the Surface of Flesh (2004), and Fragmentation and Memory: Meditations on Christian Doctrine (2008). She is currently working on...