The Apophasis of Gender: A Fourfold Unsaying of Feminist Theology

Author: Keller, Catherine

Source: Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume 76, Number 4, 3 December 2008 , pp. 905-933(29)

Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1093/jaarel/lfn090

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