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Journal of the American Academy of Religion 2008 76(4):905-933; doi:10.1093/jaarel/lfn090
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The Apophasis of Gender: A Fourfold Unsaying of Feminist Theology

Catherine Keller

Catherine Keller, The Theological School, Drew University, 36 Madison Ave., Seminary Hall 108, Madison, NJ 07940, USA

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  Abstract

If academic feminism suffers from an institutionalized overfamiliarity, it is also the case that its language of gender has never ceased to shift, bifurcate, and enfold other discourses. In its attention to its own aporias, feminism at points resembles a mysticism of "knowing ignorance." This paper effects an improbable resonance between a particular tradition of apophatic cosmology and a feminist theology that resists at once its own idolatry and its own silence. Negative theology becomes positively embodied. The device of a feminist fourfold allows for the exploration of the potentiality of gender, race, and queerness for an amorous and prolific manifold.

This paper was first delivered as an address to the American Theological Society, Princeton, 2007, at which I had been invited to speak about the current state of feminist theology.


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