Roland Faber is Kilsby Family/John B. Cobb Jr. Professor of Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology. His recent books include The Garden of Reality (2018), The Ocean of God (2019) and Depths As Yet Unspoken (2020).
In an intricate play on Dante's Divine Comedy, this book engages questions of religion and philosophy through the aporetic dynamics of love and power, locating its discussions in the midst of, and in between the spheres of a genuine philosophy of multiplicity.
Table of Contents
Meditations: On the Love of Multiplicity
Pre/Face: Conceiving the Divine Manifold
Part I: Theopoetics: On Divine Suspension
1. Poetic Transgression-What Happened to Process Theology?
2. De/Construction-After the One, the Two, and the Many
3. Subtractive Affirmation-A Post-Constructive Approach to Divine Poiesis
4. Skillful Suspension-Immersed in the Divine Comedy
5. Polypoetics-Mapping, Tracing, Symbolizing Theoplicity
Intermezzo I: Polypoetic Nomoi
Part II: Polyphilia: On Divine Passage
6 In/finite Becoming-Sounding the Pro/found
7. Chaosmetics-The Universe on Probation
8. Pure Multiplicities-Divine Game with Infants
9. Khoric Bodies-The Flesh of Multiplicity
10. The Wound of Things-A Mystagogy of Passage
Intermezzo II: Polyphilic Pluralism
Part III: Theoplicity: On Divine Folding
11. Dispossessing God-The Antinomy of Love and Power
12. Theopoetic In/Difference-A Theology of the Fold
13. Transpantheism-A/voiding Divine Identity
14. Ecotheosis-Insisting in Chaosmic Pleroma
15. Divine Diffusion-The Event of the Impossible
Epilogues: On Poly-Harmonics (Manifolds, Nothing but Manifolds)