God and Power: Counter-Apocalyptic Journeys

The questions raised by use of American power and the advent of an American empire Keller argues reveal a deeply troubled political unconscious that is wrestling with basic religious issues of power terror territory and love. Keller traces our response to the current national international and religious situation to the deeply fraught legacy of Christian apocalypticism. Religious and political factions both left and right she argues read our situation in apocalyptic terms without truly understanding that complex legacy. After diving deeply into the multiple and conflicting political and religious meanings of the Book of Revelation she proposes a counter-apocalypse an anti-imperial political theology of love.