Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction: No Matter What: Crisis and the Spirit of Planetary Possibility 1
4. Part I: Dis/Closures of Democracy and Earth
5. 1 / Creeps of the Apocalypse: Climate, Capital, Democracy 9
6. 2 The “We” of Catastrophe, the Throb of Cosmogony: Eco-Thinking with Sylvia Wynter 25
7. 3 Political Theologies at War: A Virtual Talk with Students in Ukraine 35
8. 4 Apocalypse After All? Climate, Politics, and Faith in the Possible 50
9. Part II: Power and Its Alternatives
10. 5 Nationalism and a New Religion: Foxangelicals and the Agonism of an Alternative 63
11. 6 Power, Theodicy, and the Amipotent God 77
12. 7 Weakness, Folly, Insistence, Glory: The Phenomenal God of John D. Caputo 87
13. 8 Poiesis of the Earth “A Black and Living Thing” 100
14. Part III: Love-tangles of Theology
15. 9 Amorous Entanglements: The Matter of Intercarnation 107
16. 10 “Birds with Wings Outspread” Islam, Christianity, and the Earth 122
17. 11 / Animality, Animacy, Anima Mundi: Toward an Age of Enlivenment 133
18. 12 Dear Young Theologian 145
19. Acknowledgments 153
20. Notes 155
21. Index 179