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163 n o t e s introduction Donna Bowman and Clayton Crockett 1. Flora A. Keshgegian, God Reflected: Metaphors for Life (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2009), 154. 2. Iain Nicholson, Dark Side of the Universe: Dark Matter, Dark Energy , and the Fate of the Cosmos (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), 139. 1. the energy we are: a meditation in seven pulsations Catherine Keller 1. See Glen A. Mazis, Earthbodies: Rediscovering Our Planetary Senses (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002). 2. William Blake, The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake (New York: Anchor Books, 1965), 34. 3. Ibid. 4. See William Blake, “To Nobodaddy,” in The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake, ed. David V. Erdman and Harold Bloom (1962; New York: Anchor Books, 1985), 471. 5. Robert Pollin, “Doing the Recovery Right,” Nation 288, no. 6 (2009): 13–18. 6. Ibid., 18. 7. George Monbiot, “One Shot Left,” Guardian (25 November 2008). Available at http://www.monbiot.com/archives/2008/11/25/one-shot-left. Accessed 21 December 2009. 8. Katey Walter Anthony, “Methane: A Menace Surfaces,” Scientific American (Dec. 2009): 9. 9. Richard Hawkins, Christian Hunt, Tim Holmes, and Tim HelwegLarsen , Climate Safety (United Kingdom: Public Interest Research Centre, 2008), 2. 10. Alfred North Whitehead, Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology (1978; New York: Free Press, 1985), 167. 164 Notes to pages 17–22 11. Ibid., 309; emphasis mine. 12. Jay McDaniel, Gandhi’s Hope: Learning from World Religions As a Path to Peace (Maryknoll, N.Y.: Orbis Books, 2005), 38. 13. Roland Faber, “Ecotheology, Ecoprocess, and Ecotheosis: A Theopoetical Intervention,” Salzburger Zeitschrift für Theologie 12 (2008): 75–115. Available at http://faber.whiteheadresearch.org/files/FaberR-Ecotheology_ Ecoprocess_and_Ecotheosis.pdf, 99. Accessed 4 January 2010. 14. Ibid., 115; emphasis in original. 15. Ibid. 16. See my own brief theological appropriations of chaos and complexity theory in Keller, Face of the Deep: A Theology of Becoming (London: Routledge, 2003, ch. 11); also a more introductory version in Keller, On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process (Minneapolis: Fortress, 2008). See also Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers, Order Out of Chaos: Man’s New Dialogue with Nature (Boulder, Col.: New Science Library, 1984), in which Whitehead plays a significant role. 17. Bruno Latour, Politics of Nature: How to Bring the Sciences into Democracy , trans. Catherine Porter (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2004), 5; emphasis in original. 18. Whitehead, Process and Reality, 339. 19. Stephen Moore and Mayra Rivera, eds., Planetary Loves. Fourth Drew Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquium (New York: Fordham University Press, forthcoming). 20. John B. Cobb, The Earthest Challenge to Economism: A Theological Critique of the World Bank (New York: Macmillan, 1999). 21. Whitehead, Process and Reality, 309. 22. Ibid. 23. Ibid., 116. 24. Shimon Malin, Nature Loves to Hide: Quantum Physics and Reality, a Western Perspective (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), 163. 25. Ibid., 186. 26. For accessible introductions to the concept of quantum entanglement, see Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (New York: A. A. Knopf, 2004); Louisa Gilder, The Age of Entanglement: When Quantum Physics Was Reborn (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008); Anton Zeilinger, Dance of the Photons: From Einstein to Quantum Teleportation (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010). 27. Malin, Nature Loves to Hide, 186. 28. Bernard D’ Espagnat, On Physics and Philosophy (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2006); David Bohm, Wholeness and the Implicate Order (1980; New York: Routledge, 2002). Notes to pages 22–27 165 29. First made vivid for me, with these examples, by Bill McKibben’s prophetic The End of Nature (New York: Random House, 2006). 30. Lee Smolin, The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, the Fall of a Science (New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007), 15. 31. Percy Seymour, Dark Matters: Unifying Matter, Dark Matter, Dark Energy and the Universal Grid (Franklin Lakes, N.J.: Career Press and New Page Books), 193. 32. Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the Modern World (New York: Free Press, 1925), 91. 33. Seymour, Dark Matters, 194. 34. The brilliant or luminous darkness refers in the tradition of negative or apophatic theology, especially associated with Gregory of Nyssa (fourth century) and Denys (sixth century), to the unknowable depth of divinity. See Chris Boesel and Catherine Keller, eds., Apophatic Bodies: Negative Theology, Incarnation, and Relationality (New York: Fordham University Press, 2009). 35...