What’s Next? An Eartheology of All That Is | Catherine Keller
Event Type:
- Discussion, Presentation
- (Online)
Program:
- Process Explorations
Theme:
- Building Alternative Futures
Featuring:
- Catherine Keller
Organizers:
- Center for Process Studies and Earth Week Committee of Pilgrim Place
To celebrate Earth Day with the Process Explorations and Pilgrim Place communities, we will have Catherine Keller as a special guest, focusing on “What’s Next?” In this co-sponsored event, we will dive deeply into what Keller calls an eartheology, both globally and in local communities, such as the intentional Pilgrim Place senior living community.
As the terrestrial trauma of global warming and US deregulation mounts, must we face ecological apocalypse? Ecological issues are routinely subordinated, even on the left, to pressing human concerns. Catherine Keller considers an apocalypse of dis/closure, not closure. Can the crisis itself crack open ways of greater collective attention to human and other-than-human wellbeing? How does theology, so often indifferent to the material world, help rather than hinder? Might we as Christians need a theology of God’s embodiment in all things—and particularly in the Earth? Not just in a one-off incarnation? The creation might then appear not as a one-time product but as ongoing and interdependent creativity. Does process theology help to motivate not only ecosocial virtue, but to materialize the creativity of love?
Featuring
Catherine Keller
Catherine Keller is the George T. Cobb Professor of Constructive Theology in the Theological School and Graduate Division of Religion of Drew University. She teaches courses in process, political, and ecological theology, and practices theology as a relation between ancient hints of ultimacy and current matters of urgency. Within and beyond Christian conversation, she has mobilized the transdisciplinary potential of feminist, philosophical, and pluralist intersections with religion. Her books include Facing Apocalypse: Climate, Democracy, and Other Last Chances, Political Theology of the Earth: Our Planetary Emergency and the Struggle for a New Public, Intercarnations: On the Possibility of Theology, and Cloud of the Impossible: Negative Theology and Planetary Entanglement. Her seminal work, On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process, was published in second edition February 2026.
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