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Absolute, 17, 31, 69, 74–76, 98–99, 103; absolution, 73; aseity of, 33; heterosexual, 222; moral, 230; point of view of, 68, 96; possibility, 105, 110, 334n92
Action, 137, 141–42, 144, 154, 219; connection and, 217; ethos and, 218; possibility of, 111; relation in, 22; right, 129, 145; spooky, 9, 128, 136–37, 144–46; undoing, 219
Actuality, 2, 21, 105, 107, 110–12; loss and, 224
Actualization, 21, 28, 122–23, 142, 151, 178; difference, 189; self-, 107
Adaptation, 276–79
Adorno, Theodor W., 230
Affirmative interrelation, 48, 74, 78
Affirmative names, 93–94
Affirmative theology, 93
Alexius I Comnenus, 239
Alienation, 22
“All in all and each in each,” 48, 114–15, 128, 192, 314
All-seeing image, 87–88
“All Things” (Hadewijch), 215
Alpha, 33, 286–87, 292, 303, 306, 312–15
Alteration: of perspective, 20, 141; practice of, 27; relation and, 22
Altercation, 22
Alterity, 22–23, 217, 227; Christian-Muslim, 242–43, 264–65
Alter-knowing, 18, 23, 30, 58, 64, 74, 116, 182; threefold, 27; unknowing and, 213
The Ambassadors (H. James), 48
Ambiguous entanglements, 239–42, 256, 304
Anatta (no-self), 67
Anaxagoras, 114
Anders, Günther, 370n17
Animal, 193, 198, 201, 225, 233, 235; body, 183; consciousness, 82; theory, 81–82, 106
Animal-cosmos, 107
Anthes, Emily, 348n32
Anthropocentrism, 165, 199, 225, 234–35, 236, 342n131; Gaia hypothesis and, 279–82
Anthropology, 352n2; apophatic, 65–66
Apeiron (Infinite), 74
Apocalypse, 207, 228, 266, 273, 277, 280, 286, 370n17; avoiding, 311–14
Apocalypse Now and Then (Keller), 312
Apophasis, 6–8, 17, 31, 50–51; deconstruction and, 34, 44–48, 71; kataphatic relation to, 70, 74–75, 93; originative, 59–60; Sells on, 41, 74–75; in theology, 19
Apophatic anthropology, 65–66
Apophatic cosmology, 75, 78, 117
Apophatic discourse, 42, 74–75, 104; emergence of, 59–60
Apophatic divinity, 112–13
Apophatic ecotheology, 269
Apophatic entanglement, 7, 49, 322n53; answerability, 285–88; climate change and, 25; Cusa and, 89; experiments in, 34; material base, 157; physics of, 9–10; politics of, 257–58, 264; of quantum entanglement, 122; of religion, 253; self-implication of, 42; see also specific entanglements
Apophatic experience, 56
Apophatic hermeneutics, 54
Apophatic mysticism, 33
Apophatic quantum, 132–36
Apophatic relationalism, 31, 76, 78, 109
Apophatic relationality, 6, 58
Apophatic theology, see Negative theology
Apophatic theopoetics, 24
Apophatic theory, 42
Apophatic ultimate, 75
Aquinas, 73
Ascent, 73, 81; hierarchy of, 71–72
Aspiz, Harold, 349n34
Augustine, Aurelius, 289–92
Autodeconstruction, 5, 70, 73, 94
Bannon, Brad, 334n110
Barad, Karen, 9, 20, 114, 127, 128, 135–36, 143, 151, 163, 167; on ethics and justice, 162; on posthumanist performativity, 140; on quantum entanglement, 129; on quantum relationality, 138–39
Bataille, Georges, 29
Bauman, Whitney, 206
Becomingness of God, 307–8
Becomings, 169–72, 206, 220–21; co-incident of, 143; indeterminacy of, 109; loss and, 225–26; repetition of, 194, 222; theopoiesis, 209–10, 306–16; world of, 261–63
Being, 8, 30, 54, 55, 57, 73, 164; being and, 177; Glissant on, 39; undone, 227
Being Singular Plural (Nancy), 224–25
Bennett, Jane, 121–22
Berry, Thomas, 342n131
Beyond-being (epikeine tês ousias), 70
Body, 343n10, 350n45; animal, 183; language and, 194, 198, 199, 201–4
Bohm, David, 128, 139–40, 153–62, 163, 342n131
Bohr, Niels, 133–34, 135; complementarity of, 136, 138, 140, 149–50, 159
Boundaries, 61–63
Bracken, Joseph, 345n56
Braidotti, Rosi, 222–23, 353n18
Breivik, Anders, 356n10
Bruno, Giordano, 101, 117–18, 279
Butler, Judith, 10, 215, 216–18, 256, 354n36; ecology of denaturalization, 232–36; ethics and repetition, 219–23; ethics of relationality, 226–28; I and II, 220; metaphysics of substance and, 221; negative theology and, 222–23; nonknowing relational ethics and, 228–32; parodic repetition theory, 222–23; sociality of self-composition and, 223–26; Whitehead and, 219, 220–22, 224; see also specific works
Butler, Samuel, 174
Butler on Whitehead (J. Butler), 232
Caesar, Julius, 270–71
Capitalism, 254–58, 263, 268, 275
Capitalism and Christianity, American Style (Connolly), 253
Caputo, John, 29, 39, 42, 101, 328n79, 368n1
Cardenal, Ernesto, 153, 341n90
Casarella, Peter, 110
Cassirer, Ernst, 96–97
Causation, 144
Cavanaugh, William, 244–46, 356n13
Celtic migrants, 270–71
Celtophobia, 271
Ceremony (Silko), 282–84
Certainty, 16, 26, 60; of science, 137, 274–75
Changeability, 63
Chaosmos, 112, 116, 121, 129, 169, 185, 188, 216, 309; of Alle, 49
Chaos theory, 182
Chen, Mel, 352n63
Cherubinic Wanderer (Silesius), 45
“Children of Adam” (Whitman), 201
Chittick, William C., 360n78
Christ, 210–11, 292–97, 303, 366n23; complex, 293; icon of, 90; incarnation, 368n5; as kosmos-persona, 301
Christian characters, 31–32
Christian ethic, 35
Christianity, 70, 251–52; ambiguity of love, 300; anti-ecological, 271–72; apophatic panentheism in, 75; crusades and, 239–41, 242; Earth and, 279–82; economics and, 26; trinity, 57
Christian-Muslim alterity, 242–43, 264–65; see also 9/11; Religious violence
Christian theology, 20, 31, 40, 56, 57, 71, 112
Christographics of cloud, 315; Augustine, 289–92; Epistles, 297–300; Gospels, 292–97
Civilization, 267–68; sweet zone, 273
Civil rights movement, 35
Clement of Alexandria, 54–58
Clermont, France, 239–40
Climate change, 10, 25, 263; as Gaia complex, 268–69; Gaia hypothesis, 272–76; Galatian terror and, 270–72; Genesis and, 276–79; hope and, 311–12; mitigation-adaptation shift and, 276–77; race and, 278–79; sexual closet compared to, 206; violence and, 277–79
Climate science: cloud of impossibility and, 276; indeterminacy and, 275; uncertainty and, 269, 274–75, 276, 362n32
Cloud, 7, 22, 315; ancestors, 302–5; of connections, 185; Cusa on, 92, 98–102; desert, 51–54, 85; double, 82–83; entering, 80–81, 98–102, 264–65; of forgetting, 82–83; lineage, 43, 81, 92; originary, 50–51; phenomenon of, 314–15; poorly defined, 128, 139–40; theopoetics of, 306–16; transdisciplinary and transcontextual, 82; of undoing, 218–19; of unknowing, 218–19; see also Christographics of cloud; specific clouds and entanglements
Cloudlike spatial structure, 142
Cloud of impossibility, 1, 3, 16, 18, 19, 83, 189–90; climate science and, 276; creatable creator and, 102–5; Cusa and, 99–102; physics, 132–33
The Cloud of Unknowing, 50, 67–68, 78–86
Cloud-power, 108–9
Cloud-writing (genealogy): Clement of Alexandria and, 54–58; The Cloud of Unknowing and, 78–86; Dionysius the Areopagite and, 67–78; Exodus and, 51–54; Gregory of Nyssa and, 58–67
Cobb, John B., Jr., 33, 260, 358n43
Coincidence, 99, 101; of opposites, 102–5, 132, 156
Coincidentia, 105–9, 110, 116, 163, 286, 312; of maximum with minimum, 170; of movement and stillness, 91
Coincidentia oppositorum, 18, 48, 93, 101, 106, 188
Co-incidentTK of becoming, 143
Collective trauma, 224
Comparative relation, 95
Comparative theology, 251, 252
Complementarity, 136, 138, 140, 149–50, 159
Complexity theory, 182, 360n74
Complicatio (enfolding), 23, 86, 93, 106, 113, 163, 179, 261; infinite, 48, 160, 180, 242; language, 159
Complicatio-explicatio-implicatio trinity, 179, 185, 187, 191
Complicity, 26
Comprehensive mind, 164
Cone, James, 302
Confession, 40
Connection, 185; action and, 217
Connectivity, 4, 38, 83; language of, 173
Connolly, William, 22, 27, 121–22, 174, 253, 262–63, 342n126; complexity theory, 360n74; negative theology and, 256; political philosophy of, 257, 261, 360n74; on purposefulness, 311
Consciousness, 3, 24, 160; animal, 82; matter and, 163; of relation, 3–4
Constituent connectivity, 38
Constituent relationality, 27
Constructive theology, 33
Context, 20–21
Contextuality, 149–50
Contracted infinity, 118
Contraction, 91, 94, 96, 109, 115, 174–75
Contradiction, 101, 102, 120; two pillars of physics, 132, 133, 134, 146, 155–62
Contrast, 105–9
Convivium, 175; quantum, 165–67
Conway, Anne, 183–84
Conway, Erik, 274–75
Corinthians, 20–21, 285, 319n10
Cornille, Catherine, 252
Cosmological relationalism, 51, 275
Cosmology, 48, 91, 93, 97, 109, 220; affirmative, 9, 114; apophatic, 75, 78, 117; Earth moving and, 117–20; God and, 117–20; of intra-activity, 143
Cosmopolitanism, 243, 254, 257, 358n47
Cosmopolitics, 11, 193, 199, 234, 241–42, 263; adaptation and, 277–78
Cosmopolitiques, 193
Cosmovision, 109
Countersubjectivity, 360n81
Creatable creator, 102–5
Creatio ex profundis, 152, 313
Creative act, 151–52
Creatures, 107–8, 114–15; ability, 111–12; crowd of, 37, 269
Crockett, Clayton, 39, 177, 338n43, 359n64
Cross experience, 301–2
Crowd, 3, 5–8, 24, 53, 174, 179, 216–18, 292, 315; cosmic, 47, 116, 120; of creatures, 37, 269; of nonseparability, 31; religious, 265, 280
Crusader complex, 10, 240, 241, 243, 248, 268; curing, 264–65; global economy and, 253–58
Cusa, see Nicholas of Cusa
Cusan relationality, 96–97
Cyril of Jerusalem, 40
Dark cloud, 69, 83, 92, 132, 307, 323n68; Clement of Alexandria and, 54, 57; Dionysius the Areopagite and, 67; Exodus and, 51, 52; genealogy of, 51–54, 67, 133; Gregory of Nyssa, 58
Dark infinity, 58–67
Darkness, 70, 99, 312; brilliant, 17, 67–78; of Clement of Alexandria, 54, 58; Cloud of Unknowing and, 79–86; of Gregory of Nyssa, 58, 59; lost possibility, 121; meditation to enter, 80–81; in Republic, 59; see also Luminous darkness
Dark precursors, 177, 178, 180
Darnton, Robert, 318n1
Davies, Paul, 139
Death of God, 4, 8, 15, 29, 39, 176–77
Decidability, limits of, 131, 143
Decision, 162; power of, 144–45
Deconstruction, 8, 42, 60, 101, 337n38; apophasis and, 34, 44–48, 71; autodeconstruction, 5, 70, 73, 94; of gender, 221; of matter, 139; of sexual natures, 234
Deconstructive negation, 18, 48, 74
De docta ignorantia (Cusa), 33, 48, 87, 88–91, 97, 333n71; book 1, 114–15, 117; book 2, 114, 117; book 3, 116; negative theology and, 92–93
Deleuze, Gilles, 168, 346n67, 349n33; becomings and, 169–72; folding philosophy, 172–80; God process and, 188–95; open monads and, 180–88; quantum entanglement and, 174–75; Whitehead and, 171–72; Whitman and, 197, 199; see also specific works
Democratic pluralism, 39, 174, 313
Denaturalization, 232–36
Denial, 268–69
De Pace Fides (Cusa), 242, 248–49
Derrida, Jacques, 2, 8, 22–23, 42, 176, 235, 236, 324n75; Dionysius and, 70–71; on hospitality, 27; Marion and, 71; on “maybe,” 101; on negative theology, 44–48, 100
de Segovia, Juan, 242
d’Espagnat, Bernard, 136, 139, 152; on nonseparability, 150; rainbow parable, 340n79
De visione Dei (Cusa), 87, 88, 110; hologram and, 158
Dickinson, Emily, 17, 309, 310, 369n15
Difference, 32, 46, 63, 170–78, 186, 252, 256; actualization, 189; christographic, 300; class, 282; entangled, 9, 179, 211, 246, 285, 287, 296; human, 183, 216, 235; infinite, 63; nonknowing and, 37; nonseparability of, 22, 27, 30, 36–37, 49, 110, 131, 197, 209, 287, 293, 300; participation models and, 161; as process, 225; relationality and, 225; relation to and between, 23; sexual, 221
Difference and Repetition (Deleuze), 172–74, 176, 177, 179
Diffusion, 152–53
Dionysian hermeneutics, 73
Dionysian negative, 71–73
Dionysius the Areopagite, 17, 38, 43, 44, 67–69, 72–78, 81, 85, 92; Derrida and, 70–71; Eriugena on, 79
Divine, 76, 104–5; all in all, 103; identity, 33; unsaying of, 212; violence, 28
The Divine Names (Stang), 76
Divinity, 78; apophatic, 112–13; language of, 77
Divinization, 307
Docta ignorantia, see Knowing ignorance
Dominance, 277
Dorrien, Gary, 358n44
Double cloud, 82–83
Drag queens, 222–23
Dupuy, Jean-Pierre, 370n17
Durchbruch, 323n64
Dussel, Enrique, 240, 246–47, 257–58
Eaarth: Marking a Life on a Tough New Planet (McKibben), 276
Earth: Christianity and, 279–82; democracy, 280–81; mirroring, 204, 206–7; moving, 117–20, 122–23; religions, 279–80; sexuality and, 204–8; unsaying of, 276; unspoken meanings of, 211–14; see also Climate change; Gaia
Ecclesiastical Hierarchy (Dionysius), 68
Eckhart, Meister, 30, 41–42, 43, 78, 116
Ecological relationalism, 232–36
Ecology of denaturalization, 232–36
Economics: Christianity and, 26; global, 253–58
Ecopolitics, 234
Eco-social justice, 279–80
Ecotheology, 279, 342n131; apophatic, 269
Ego cogito, 257–58
Ego conquiro, 257, 263, 360n81
Einfalt (one fold), 181
Einstein, Albert, 97, 115, 128, 132; moon and, 141; quantum theory and, 133–34, 146–47; separability and, 136
The Elegant Universe (Greene), 132
Elohim, see Plurisingularity
Emergence science, 273
En, 186
Enfolding (Complicatio), 96, 151; folding philosophy and, 172–80; quantum theory and, 158–61; relation, 21–22; units of, 182; see also Complicatio
Enormity, 146
Ensemble of everything, 153–62
The Entangled God (Wegter-McNelly), 152
Entangled Trinity theology, 152–53
Entanglement, 6–7, 22; ambiguous, 239–42, 256, 304; capitalism and, 254–58, 263; creative act and, 151–52; of difference, 9, 179, 211, 246, 285, 287, 296; ecologies of, 24–25; of Gaia, 283–84; of gender and sex, 201–4; of knower in known, 20; love, 289–300; nonhuman, 10, 24, 171–72, 198; with Other, 216–19; participatory, 256; particle, 147–53; physics and, 128–29; Schrödinger on, 138–39; theophysics of, 162–65; thunderclap of, 146–53; world-transforming, 35; see also Nonseparability
Epikeine tês ousias (beyond-being), 70
Eriugena, 67, 74, 79, 113, 121
Erkkila, Betsy, 349n44
Eros, see Yearning Erotic knowing, see Yada
Eschatological question, 211–12
Eternity, 289
Ethics, 129, 162, 215–18, 217; Christian, 35; nonknowing relational, 228–32; of relationality, 226–28; subject to repetition, 219–23; see also Relational ontology ethics
Ethos, 218
Eunomius, 60–61
Event, 345n46; fold and, 180–88; novel, 144; particles as, 141–44
“Everybody Here is a Cloud” (Cloud Cult), 15, 84
Exception, 296
Ex nihilo, 20, 56, 139, 312, 332n61
Exodus, 15, 51–54; Plato and, 59; Platonism and, 67–70
Explicatio (unfolding), 9, 48, 93, 110, 113, 128, 153, 172, 309; language, 159; in trinity, 185, 187, 191
Explication, 158–59
Expressionism in Philosophy (Deleuze), 180
Faber, Roland, 24, 171, 192, 231, 332n58, 358n40
Face: of Gaia, 272; icons and, 95–98; of Other, 217; painted face and, 89–95, 96, 98
The Face of the Deep (Keller), 312–13
Facing Gaia (Latour), 266
Factishes, 275
Faith, 26; language of, 19; truth content of, 250
Femininity, 203, 221; of Gaia, 281–82
Feminism, 77, 220; ecofeminism, 220, 281–82, 313; Roman Catholic, 36–37
Ferris, Timothy, 146
Feynman, Richard, 132, 134, 140
Finnegans Wake (Joyce), 112
First Crusade, 239–40, 243, 246
Flesh, 295
Fluctuation, 182
Folding philosophy, 172–80
Fold in process, 168–71; folding philosophy and, 172–80; God process and, 188–95; open monads and, 180–88
The Fold: Leibniz and the Baroque (Deleuze), 168, 172–80
Folds, 7, 177, 315; event and, 180–88; upon fold, 23–25; of folds, 345n46; God and, 185–88; language and, 169; materialization of, 120–23; particles and, 181–82; perspective and, 170; of relation, 170–72, 215–19; same-sex, 203–5; space-time, 286–87, 295, 304; unfolded out of, 196–97; see also specific folds
Forgiveness, 100
Fragile cosmopolis, 261–63
Frank, Thomas, 254
Franke, William, 57
Freedom, 29, 66–67, 83, 103, 108, 211
Gaia, 267, 271, 282–84; entanglement of, 283–84; face of, 272; feedback loops, 314; femininity of, 281–82; Galatian terror and, 270–72; God and, 281–82; narrative complexity of, 283; Pergamon story and, 266–67, 270–71, 277
Gaia complex, 10, 268–69, 273; language, 278–79
Gaia hypothesis, 175, 272–76, 279–82, 362n23
Gaiaphobia, 270
Galatian terror, 270–72
Gay and Gaia (Spencer), 206
Gay rights movement, 35
Gebara, Ivone, 37
Gender, 32, 98, 223; deconstruction of, 221; entanglement of sex and, 201–4; hierarchy, 298–300; mysticism and, 77; sex and, 221, 230, 234, 282
Gendered language, 44, 65–66, 77
Genealogy, see Cloud-writing Genesis, 276–79
Giving an Account of Oneself (J. Butler), 226
Gleiser, Marcelo, 137
Glissant, Édouard, 1, 4, 239, 255, 256; on Being, 39; on relation, 3, 39
Global economy, 253–58
Global warming, see Climate change
God, 4–5, 264; beyond, 70; within, 114; absolute possibility, 105, 110, 334n92; becomingness of, 307–8; coincidentia and contrast, 105–9; as collective being, 186; cosmology and, 117–20; creatable creator and, 102–5; of Cusa, 7–8, 89, 93–95, 121–22; death of, 4, 8, 15, 29, 39, 176–77; Deleuze and, 188–95; eros and, 76; experience of, 33; folds and, 185–88; Gaia and, 281–82; hospice of, 25–31; hypertheos, 70; as infinite, 7–8, 89, 93–95; knowing, 60–61; limits of, 61–63, 64; love and, 291, 296, 304–5; metaphysics and, 171–72; multiplicity, 345n46; naming, 72, 307; Non-Other, 332n58; as perhaps, 47–48; political theology and, 258–61; posse ipsum, 2, 5, 47–48, 110–11, 132, 306, 316; possibility and, 109–17; potentiality in, 105; process, 9–10, 188–95; quantum entanglement and, 145; quantum relationality and, 164–65; question of, 29–30, 39; seeing, 165; theopoiesis, 209–10, 306–16; unfolding, 112–13; unsaying of, 39, 212–13; see also specific names; specific scholars; specific theologies
God icon, 95–98; painted face as, 92
God-making, 306–16
The God Species (Lynas), 277
God-syllable, 84
God-talk, 6, 20, 28, 30, 36, 189, 193; masculine, 44; as metaphor, 33–34, 39; of theopoetics, 309
Golding, William, 272
The Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens Your Future (Inhofe), 274
Greenstein, George, 148
Greenwashing, 274
Gregory of Nyssa, 40, 54, 58–67, 75, 76, 85, 93, 302–3
Gut Symmetries (Winterson), 127
Hadewijch, 215, 218, 219–20, 229, 353n7, 353n9
Hadot, Pierre, 56
Halberstam, J., 296–97, 366n29
Hamilton, Clive, 370n17
Hardt, Michael, 173–74
Harries, Karsten, 94, 97, 117, 119
Hartshorne, Charles, 37
Hashem, 55
Hebrew, 30, 297; relationality of, 320n30
Heisenberg, Werner, 137, 141, 143
Heresy, 71
Herzogenrath, Bernd, 347n23
Hick, John, 251
Hidden variables, 155
Hierarchy, 68; of ascent, 71–72; gender, 298–300; of mediation, 115
Higgins, Luke, 345n53
Hiley, Basil J., 155
Hillgardner, Holly, 83, 329n114, 352n6
Holism, 184, 330n22; language of, 156–57, 161–62
Hologram, 158
Hopper, Stanley, 369n10
How Hippies Saved Physics (Kaiser), 155
Human, 61–62, 76, 352n2; difference, 183, 216, 235; dominance, 277; ethics, 216–17; responsibility, 144–45; sex and lust, 208–11; sexuality and earth, 204–8; see also Body; Language; Relational ontology ethics; specific human elements
Hutchins, Christina, 222, 353n16
Hyperimpossible, 46
Hypertheos (beyond God), 70
“I,” 114, 179, 198, 211, 214, 225, 257, 294; emergence of, 226; witnessing, 314
Iberian Reconquest, 246–47
Ibn Arabi, 264–65, 360nn79–80
Identity, 8, 32–33, 252; repetition and, 222
Idol, 93
Idolization, 95
Ignorance, 3, 65; Cyril on, 40; knowledge and, 129–30; production of, 274; sacred, 51; willful, 21, 25; see also Knowing ignorance; Learned ignorance
Imago Dei, 118
Implicate order, 157–58
Implicatio, 153, 163, 172, 185, 191–93
Impossibility, 88, 99; discoveries of, 340n76; see also Cloud of impossibility
Impossible, 2–3, 15–16; more than, 44–49
Incarnation, 107, 164, 173, 190, 209–11, 308, 311, 368n5
Indeterminacy, 4, 18, 49, 74, 100, 127, 148, 285, 313, 315; of becoming, 109; climate science and, 275; irreducible, 123; ontological, 9, 133, 138, 151, 166; quantum, 155
Indeterminate intimacies, 136–41
Indirect effect, 144
Individuality, 32
Indivisibility, 157–58
Inescapable networks, 31–38
Infinite, 63, 64, 88, 212, 218; apeiron, 74; complicatio, 48, 160, 180, 242; difference, 63; God as, 7–8, 89, 93–95; logic of, 62; process, 188–95
Infinite Complication, 123, 131
Infinity, 30, 98, 123, 186–88; contracted, 118; dark, 58–67; in face of Other, 217; logic of, 117; negative, 118; of universe, 118
Influence, 144; of relation, 150
Inhofe, James, 274
Intercarnation, 5, 296, 304, 308, 315
Interdependence, 8, 24, 32, 35, 49, 96–97, 148, 150, 184, 226, 235; constituent, 48, 162, 210; indeterminate, 38, 149; mutual, 230; planetary, 31, 121
Interference, 141
Interrelated structures, 35
Intra-action, 137–39, 167, 262, 295
Intra-activity, 20, 114, 122–23, 127, 140–41; cosmology of, 143; of measurements, 151
Islam, 240–42, 251–52, 259; modernity and, 246–47; see also Christian-Muslim alterity
Islamophobia, 243, 246–47, 248, 268, 271, 318n3; ego cogito and, 257–58
James, Henry, 48
Jameson, Frederic, 247–48
Jeffers, Robinson, 308
John of Patmos, 312
Johnson, Elizabeth, 44, 77, 323n70
Johnson-DeBaufre, Melanie, 300
Judaism, 40, 50, 54, 55; see also Hebrew; Yada
Jung, Carl Gustav, 135
Justice, 32, 162; eco-social, 279–80; manifold, 27, 38; of woman, 201–4
Just relation, 34
Kabbalah, 55, 183, 332n61, 333n75, 354n36, 371n26
Kahl, Brigitte, 270–72
Kahlo, Frida, 193
Kaiser, David, 155
Kakez-A-Kapend, Christian, 321n43
Kang, Namsoon, 243, 254, 358n47
Kataphasis, 3, 33, 41, 73, 86; apophatic relation to, 70, 74–75, 93
Katz, Jonathan Ned, 349n44
Kearney, Richard, 5, 39, 111–12, 293, 305, 324n82, 334n92
Keats, John, 5
Kierkegaard, 47
Kim, Jung Doo, 304
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 35–36, 321n41, 321n43, 367n54
Klee, Paul, 22
Knower-known entanglement, 20; subject-object relationship, 137, 138, 140, 330n30
Knowing: context and, 20–21; God, 60–61; nothing, 75; relational, 30; yada, 30, 63, 92, 320n30
Knowing ignorance (docta ignorantia), 17–19, 93, 163, 201, 229, 248, 268; breakthrough of, 9, 90; relationality of, 297
Knowledge, 3; Cyril on, 40; ignorance and, 129–30; love and, 297–300; relations and, 23; undoing, 219; see also Apophatic entanglement
Kosmos, 198–99
“Kosmos” (Whitman), 207–8
Kosmos-persona, 198, 199, 200, 208–9, 211, 217; Christ as, 301
Koutroufinis, Spyridon, 340n86
Language, 3, 233; body and, 194, 198, 199, 201–4; complicatio, 159; of connectivity, 173; of divinity, 77; endless unfolding of words, 197–201; explicatio, 159; of faith, 19; fold and, 169; Gaia complex, 278–79; gendered, 44, 65–66, 77; of holism, 156–57, 161–62; mystical, 68; of necessity, 99; of quantum entanglement, 336n10; relational, 46; self-implicating, 23–24; Turner on, 74; unsaying, 73; see also God-talk
Latour, Bruno, 233–34, 266, 270, 275, 282–83, 363n52, 370n17
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, 141
Learned ignorance, 21, 22, 88, 94, 98; in science, 130
Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 196; Earth and sexuality, 204–8; endless unfolding of words, 197–201; language and body, 201–4; sex and lust, 208–11; unspoken meanings of earth, 211–14; see also specific poems
Leibniz, G. W., 161–62, 181; folding philosophy and, 172–73, 176; Whitehead and, 182–84
LGBTQI, 33
Liberalism, 260
Liberation, 67; from oppression, 27; theology, 33, 36, 46; theos of, 38
Light, 59, 68, 70, 312; speed of, 134
Lim, Richard, 60
Local realism, 146
Logos, 11, 15, 16, 72, 292, 294, 304, 309, 315; theos, 103, 170, 308, 310
Loss, 223–26, 233, 234–36, 353n18
Love, 11, 68, 76, 206, 214, 303, 306; ambiguity of Christian, 300; distinctions, 365n14; entanglement, 289–300; God and, 291, 296, 304–5; knowledge and, 297–300; militant, 301–2; neighbor, 290, 291, 293–94, 298; nonseparability and, 22; Paul and, 297–300; sustainability and, 290; unknowing and, 81; see also Questionable love
The Love Embrace of the Universe (Kahlo), 193
Lovelock, James, 272, 273, 362n23
Luminous darkness, 36, 58–59, 114, 121, 122, 303, 311; textual beginnings, 66
The Luminous Darkness (Thurman), 34–35
Lust, 208–11
Lynas, Mark, 277
Mackendrick, Karmen, 168, 179, 194, 346n66
Macy, Joanna, 355n50
Mallarmé, Stéphane, 23
Mandelbrot, Benoit, 182
Marcos, Sylvia, 109
Marion, J.-L., 31, 68, 73; Derrida and, 71
Martyr, Justin, 58
Masciandaro, Nicola, 81–82
Masking effect, 159
Material: base, 157; rhizome, 197
Materialization, 118, 142; of folds, 120–23
Matter: consciousness and, 163; deconstruction of, 139; quantum of, 128; vibrant, 163
Measurements, 135, 136, 140; decoherence, 152; intra-activity of, 151; uncertainty principle and, 137, 138
Meditation, from Cloud of Unknowing, 79–81
Meeting the Universe Halfway (Barad), 129
Mehmet II (Emperor), 240
Mequet, Kevin, 338n42
Mercedes, Anna, 304
Merchandising of doubt, 274–75
Merchants of Doubt (N. Oreskes and E. Conway), 274
Metaphor, 33–34, 39, 74, 345n56
Metaphysics, 36, 130, 131, 368n1; God and, 171–72; sex and, 221; of substance, 17, 32, 42, 176, 220–21, 224, 262
Microcosmic monadology, 185
Microorganisms, 175
Militant love, 301–2
Mindful nonknowing, 27, 38, 49, 128
Mindful universe, 141–45
The Mindful Universe (Stapp), 144–45
Mindful unknowing, 19, 21, 22, 85
Mirror, 130–32, 166, 183, 319n10, 342n131; earth, 204, 206–7; enigma in, 18–21, 92, 216; play, 39, 88, 119; of quantum entanglement, 165
Misinformation, 275
Mitigation-adaptation shift, 276–77
Modernity, 244, 246–47, 257–58
Moe-Lobeda, Cynthia, 278
Moltmann, Jürgen, 279–82
Mondzain, Marie-José, 90
Moral responsibility, 226
Moses, 50–53, 58, 66, 68, 70, 81, 303; Clement of Alexandria and, 54–56; in Mystical Theology, 69; see also Exodus
Motion, 98–99; standing, 63–64
Movement, 95, 96; “being moved,” 97, 99; contraction of, 91; Earth, 117–20, 122–23
Moving still, 63–64
Multiplicities, 24, 78, 172, 216; deterritorializing, 173–74; God, 345n46; naming, 77; of relation, 25; religious, 242–43; of voices, 208–11; see also specific multiplicities
Multitude: against One, 173–74; of One, 54–58
Mutual immanence, 21
Mutual interdependence, 230
Mutual participation, 227
Mystical theology, 68, 326n36; negative movement of, 72–73
Mystical Theology (Dionysius), 38, 67, 69, 70, 92; Dionysian negative and, 71–73
Mysticism, 6, 9, 44, 60, 68, 326n36; apophatic, 33; contemplative, 36, 56; gender and, 77
The Myth of Religious Violence (Cavanaugh), 244
Naming, 33, 38–39; affirmative, 93–94; God, 72, 307; multiplicity and, 77
Nancy, Jean-Luc, 224–25; on painting, 90–91
Narcissism, 22
Narrative complexity, 283
Nash, John, 341n95
Nature Loves to Hide (Malin), 149–50
Nausner, Michael, 63
Necessity, 100; language of, 99
Negation, 3, 8, 17, 40–44, 178; beyond, 69; deconstructive, 18, 48, 74; gender, 66; mystical, 19; of negation, 73, 76; series of, 61, 70–71; superlative, 74; transformation and, 68
Negative infinity, 118
Negative movement, 72–73
Negative theology, 2, 7, 8, 17–18, 25, 302–5, 315; affirmative theology related to, 93; Butler, J., and, 222–23; Connolly and, 256; De docta ignorantia and, 92–93; Derrida on, 44–48, 100; desert cloud and, 51–54; formulation of, 70–71; historical sources, 40–44; Philo and, 55; relational ontology and, 177; strategy, 73–74; see also specific aspects of negative theology
Negative ultimate, 31
Negri, Antonio, 173–74
Neighbor-love, 290, 291, 293–94, 298
Neoplatonism, 40, 51, 56, 59; stereotypes of, 72–73
Nicholas of Cusa, 1, 2–3, 47, 88, 159, 160, 310; “all in all and each in each,” 48, 114–15, 128, 192, 314; apophatic entanglement and, 89; cloud of impossibility and, 99–102; on clouds, 92, 98–102; Coincidentia oppositorum, 18, 48, 93, 101, 106, 188; creatable creator and, 102–5; Earth moving, 117–20, 122–23; entering cloud and, 98–102; expeditions, 90; Faber on, 332n58; God of, 7–8, 89, 93–95, 121–22; icons and, 95–98; letter to Tegernsee monks, 87; materializing folds and, 120–23; on minimum and maximum, 132; painted face and, 89–95; pantheism and, 335n119; possible God and, 109–17; religio una, 242, 243; religious violence and, 241, 242, 248–50; science and, 119; Segovia and, 356n6; special relativity and, 97; Whitehead and, 105–9; see also Knowing ignorance; specific works by Cusa
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 89, 177, 263
Nonattachment, 83, 290, 329n114
Nonbelief, 256–57
Nonhumans, 108, 216–17, 219, 225, 234–36; contemplation, 175; depth of feeling, 262; entanglements, 10, 24, 171–72, 198; observation and, 143–44; see also specific nonhumans
Nonknowing, 2–3, 5, 7, 11, 31, 48, 315; difference and, 37; mindful, 27, 38, 49, 128; nonseparability and, 89, 229; relational ethics, 228–32; willful, 128; see also Apophatic entanglement
Nonlocality, 128, 146, 162; theory, 147
Non-Other, 332n58
Nonseparability, 11, 21, 315; crowd of, 31; d’Espagnat on, 150; of difference, 22, 27, 30, 36–37, 49, 110, 131, 197, 209, 287, 293, 300; love and, 22; nonknowing and, 89, 229; ontological, 138–39; see also Physics of nonseparability
Nonviolence, 35–37
Norms, 230–31
No-self (anatta), 67
Not-Other, 110
Novelty, 222
Nussbaum, Martha, 199
Observation, 160, 165; nonhumans and, 143–44; subject-object relationship, 20, 137, 138, 140, 330n30
Occupy movement, 174
Ochoa Espejo, Paulina, 242, 259, 260
Omega, 33, 286–87, 292, 303, 306, 312–15
One, 68, 76; multitude against, 173–74; multitude of, 54–58
One-All, 187
One fold (einfalt), 181
On the Peace of Faith (Cusa), 241
Ontological indeterminacy, 9, 133, 138, 151, 166
Ontological nonseparability, 138–39
Ontological relationalism, see relational ontology
Ontology, 6, 7, 131, 164; quantum, 143; quantum theory and, 141–42; of relation, 23–25; of Whitehead, 21, 142, 143, 150–51, 190
Ontotheology, 54–55
Opacity, 256
Operative reciprocity, 137
Oppenheimer, Robert, 154–55
Oppression, 26, 35–37; liberations from, 27; sexes and lusts, 208–11; truth and, 249
Ordeal of undecidability, 100
Oreskes, Naomi, 274–75
Organism, 349n33; microorganisms, 175; Whitehead’s philosophy of, 175–76, 185
Origen, 56
Originary cloud, 50–51
Orpheus, 57
Ortega-Aponte, Elias, 364n55
Other, 47, 332n58; entanglement with, 216–19; infinity in face of, 217
Overpopulation, 351n47
Pagans, 251
Painted face, 98; Cassirer on, 96; Cusa and, 89–95
Painting, 90–91
Pan, 186
Panentheism, 33, 76, 153, 321n34; apophatic, 68, 75; as political theology, 258–61
Parenti, Christian, 277
Parodic repetition theory, 222–23
Parr, Adrian, 282
Participation, 256, 262; models and difference, 161; mutual, 227
Participatory entanglement, 256
Participatory universe, 161
Particles, 131–32, 136, 137, 139–40, 338n46; angle of spin, 147–49; entanglement, 147–53; as event, 141–44; folds and, 181–82
Paul, 20–21, 51, 270–72, 285, 303; love and, 297–300
Pax Americana, 253
Pax dei, 253
Pax Economica, 253–58
Pax romana, 253
Pax romana Christiana, 253
Peace, 241, 258; movements, 239–40; nonviolence, 35–37; talk, 240
Peacemaking strategy, 241
Pergamon story, 266–67, 270–71, 277
Perpetual perishing, 225
Perspectival multiverse, 114, 122
Perspective, 140; alteration of, 20, 141; arts of, 87–88; contraction and, 96; cosmology and, 117–20; folds and, 170; icons and, 95–98; painted face and, 89–95; relational, 97–98; of universe, 114–15; view, 94
Phenomena, 138
Philosophy, 8–9, 39; see also specific philosophers; specific philosophies
Physics, 131; of apophatic entanglement, 9–10; contradiction of two pillars of, 132, 133, 134, 146, 155–62; could of impossibility, 132–33; entanglement and, 128–29; see also Measurements; Metaphysics; Quantum theory
Physics of nonseparability, 127–31; apophatic quantum and, 132–36; ensemble of everything and, 153–62; indeterminate intimacies and, 136–41; mindful universe and, 141–45; quantum convivium and, 165–67; theophysics of entanglement and, 162–65; thunderclap of entanglement, 146–53
Pinker, Steven, 361n2
Planetary precarity, 232–36
Plato, 51, 54–55, 78, 113; commentaries on, 56; Exodus and, 59
Platonism, 54–56, 94; Exodus and, 67–70
Pleasure, 80
Pluralism, 173, 220, 251; democratic, 39, 174, 313; political, 257; relational, 252, 264; religious, 250, 257; secular, 252
Plurisingularity (Elohim), 113, 187, 228, 287, 314
Podolsky, Boris, 146
Poetics of Relation (Glissant), 255
Poetry, 23–24, 70; of equality, 197; as theopoiesis, 209–10; see also Leaves of Grass; specific poets and poems
Polis, 267
Political adaptation, 278
Political philosophy, 257, 261, 360n74
Political pluralism, 257
Political relationalism, 22
Political theology, 27, 33, 39, 241, 245; panentheism as, 258–61
Political unconscious, 273–74
Politics, 243; of apophatic entanglement, 257–58, 264
Pollak, Vivian, 202
Polyamory of place, 206
Poor, 37
Poorly defined cloud, 128, 139–40
Porete, Marguerite de, 41–42
Porphyry, 56
Posse ipsum (possibility itself), 2, 5, 47–48, 110–11, 132, 306, 316
Possibility, 2–3, 8, 15–16, 100–1; absolute, 105, 110, 334n92; of action, 111; God and, 109–17; lost, 121; preceding, 286–87; reduction of, 105; uncertainty as, 48; see also Apophatic entanglement
Possibility itself, see Posse ipsum
Posthumanist performativity, 140
Potentiality, 21, 110, 111; common field of, 152; in God, 105; waves as, 141–44
Power, 111, 259–60; cloud-, 108–9; of decision, 144–45; social, 220, 222
Precarious Life (J. Butler), 215, 223, 228–29
Prigogine, Ilya, 182
Primavesi, Anna, 281–82
Process, 8, 231–32; difference as, 225; God, 9–10, 188–95; infinite, 188–95; theology, 32–33, 108, 122, 158, 260–61, 332n64; see also Fold in process
Process and Reality (Whitehead), 105, 106, 224
Process Theology as Political Theology (J. Cobb), 260
Proclus, 56
Projection, 96
Prophetic activation, of relational manifold, 34–38
Psalm 139, 34
Pseudo-Dionysius, see Dionysius the Areopagite
The Psychic Life of Power (J. Butler), 219
Psychoanalysis, 220
Psychophysical, 144
Pui-lan, Kwok, 174
Purposefulness, 311
Quakers, 35
Quanta, 134
Quantum, 139, 163; apophatic, 132–36; convivium, 165–67; field, 152; indeterminacy, 155; of matter, 128; ontology, 143; uncertainty, 121, 147, 313; void, 166
Quantum entanglement, 128, 144, 147–53, 339n70; apophatic entanglement of, 122; Barad on, 129; Deleuze and, 174–75; God and, 145; language of, 336n10; mirror of, 165
Quantum mechanics, 129, 132–33, 136–37, 147; orthodox version of, 144; see also Particles; Waves
Quantum relationality, 138–39, 152; God and, 164–65
Quantum theory, 135, 140; Einstein and, 133–34, 146–47; ontology and, 141–42; relativity theory and, 132, 133, 134, 146, 155–62; unfolding and enfolding and, 158–61; see also Physics of nonseparability
Questionability, 285–88, 289, 301–2, 305
Questionable love, 288; Augustine and, 289–92; Epistles and, 297–300; Gospels and, 292–97
Race, 32; climate change and, 278–79
Racism, 301–2
Rahner, Karl, 251
Reactive identity, 32
Recapitulatio doctrine, 301–2
Relation, 63, 262; in action, 22; alteration and, 22; apophatic-kataphatic, 70, 74–75, 93; apophatic theopoetics of, 24; comparative, 95; consciousness of, 3–4; to and between differences, 23; dynamism of, 48; enfolding, 21–22; folds of, 170–72, 215–19; Glissant on, 3, 39; influence of, 150; just, 34; knowledge and, 23; mode of, 77; multiplicities of, 25; ontology of, 23–25; relation to, 20; self-implication of, 287–88; speed of, 149; subject-object, 20, 137, 138, 140, 330n30; theological cosmology of, 48; see also Apophatic entanglement
Relational attributes, 148
Relational ethics, 228–32
Relationalism, 34–38, 142–43; apophatic, 31, 76, 78, 109; cosmological, 51, 275; ecological, 232–36; loss and, 223–24; of microorganisms, 175; open-system, 141; political, 22; unbounded, 24
Relationality, 220, 314; apophatic, 6, 58; constituent, 27; Cusan, 96–97; difference and, 225; of docta ignorantia, 297; ethics of, 226–28; of Hebrew, 320n30; unconscious, 220; see also Quantum relationality
Relational knowing, 30
Relational language, 46
Relational manifold, 34–38
Relational ontology, 9, 10, 31, 148, 152–53; negative theology and, 177
Relational ontology ethics, 215–19; ethics of relationality and, 228–32; nonknowing relational ethics and, 228–32; repetition and, 219–23; self-composition and, 223–26
Relational perspective, 97–98
Relational pluralism, 252, 264
Relational theology, 6, 8, 32, 48, 176, 315
Relativity theory, 132, 133, 134, 146, 155–62; see also special relativity
Religion, 243, 244–53, 359n57; apophatic entanglement of, 253; Earth, 279–80; Gaia hypothesis and, 279–82; global economy and, 253–58; see also specific religions
Religious multiplicity, 242–43
Religious violence, 243; Cusa and, 241, 242, 248–50; myth, 244–46; West emergence and, 244–53
Repetition, 177–78, 191–92, 205, 301; of becomings, 194, 222; ethics subject to, 219–23; identity and, 222; parodic theory of, 222–23; stylized, 222, 223
Republic (Plato), 59
Resistance, 83
Rest, 98–99
Revelation 8:13, 272
Reversals, 274
Revolutionary theology, 119
Rilke, Rainer Maria, 285
Rivera, Mayra, 53, 295, 351n61
Roman Catholic feminism, 36–37
Romans 11.33, 61
Rosen, Nathan, 146
Rubenstein, Mary-Jane, 114, 118, 227, 318n2
Rudd, Gillian, 82
Ruether, Rosemary Radford, 281
Russell, Bertrand, 26
Rustin, Bayard, 35
Sacred ignorance, 51
Same-sex fold, 203–5
Satisfaction, 63
Satyagraha meditation, 35
Scarpa, Sébastien, 348n31
Schneider, Laurel, 24, 308, 319n16, 345n46
Schrödinger, Erwin, 137, 146; on entanglement, 138–39
Science, 119–20, 121–22, 336n11; certainty of, 137, 274–75; emergence, 273; learned ignorance in, 130; theology and, 130–31; see also Climate science
Secularism, 27, 243, 259, 359n57
Secular pluralism, 252
Self-actualization, 107
Self-affirmation, 209–10
Self-composition, 223–26
Self-construction, 208
Self-contradiction, 120
Self-implication, 42, 296, 301; language of, 23–24; of relation, 287–88
Sells, Michael, 84, 360n80; on apophasis, 41, 74–75
Sensible experimentum (Cusa), 87, 89–95
Separation, 167
Sex: entanglement of gender and, 201–4; folds of same-, 203–5; gender and, 221, 230, 234, 282; lust and, 208–11; metaphysics and, 221
Sexual closet, 206
Sexual difference, 221
Sexuality: Earth and, 204–8; moral responsibility, 226; of Whitman, 349n44
Sexual nature deconstruction, 234
Sexual politics, 197
Shekhinah, 9, 52, 58, 77, 371n26
Shiva, Vandana, 273, 278, 280–81
Silence, 17
The Silent Cry: Mysticism and Resistance (Soelle), 82–83
Silko, Leslie Marmon, 282–84
Single syllable word, 80–81
Six Degrees (Lynas), 277
Sky, 64–65
Slavery, 66
Social justice theology, 32
Social movements, 34–38
Social ontology, 32
Socrates, 40
Soelle, Dorothea, 82–83
Soil not Oil: Environmental Justice in an Age of Climate Crisis (Shiva), 278
“Song of Myself” (Whitman), 196, 197–98
Space-time fold, 286–87, 295, 304
Spatiality, 246–47
Speakable and Unspeakable in Quantum Physics (Bell), 133, 147
Special relativity, 97, 132–33, 147
Speculative despecialization, 120
Speed of light, 134
Spencer, Daniel, 206
Spinoza, Baruch, 183, 186, 187
Spivak, Gayatri, 111
Spooky actions, 9, 128, 136–37, 144–46
Standing motion, 63–64
Stang, Charles, 60, 61; on eros, 76–77
Stapp, Henry, 9, 141–45, 163; Whitehead and, 338n54
Stengers, Isabelle, 233–34
Stillness, contraction of, 91
Stories of God (Rilke), 285
Subject-object relationship, 20, 137, 138, 140, 330n30
Substance, metaphysics of, 17, 32, 42, 176, 220–21, 224, 262
Subversive resignification, 222
Supereminentia (True absolute), 73
Superlative negation, 74
Superpositions, 140–41
Sustainability, 233–36; love and, 290
Sweet zone, 273
Symbiogenesis, 175
Symbiosis, 175
Synchronicity theory, 135
Tanner, Kathryn, 33, 65, 290, 365n11
Terror, 270–71
Thacker, Eugene, 73–74
Thatamanil, John, 252, 321n42, 358n39
Theological cosmology of relation, 48
Theological philosophy, 39
Theology, 5, 7, 15, 121–22, 164, 336n11; in Abrahamic traditions, 16; apophasis in, 19; edge of, 29; multiplicity of, 24; science and, 130–31; TOE, 166; unsaying, 38–40; vulnerabilities of, 27–28; see also specific theologies
Theophysics of entanglement, 162–65
Theopoetics, 24, 25, 369n10; of cloud, 306–16; God-talk of, 309
Theopoiesis (becoming God), 209–10, 306–16
Theory of Everything (TOE), 166
Theos, 11, 15, 16, 17, 88; dark place of, 29; in en, 186; eros with, 81; of liberation, 38; logos, 103, 170, 308, 310
Theosis, 307
Thom, René, 182
Thurman, Howard, 34–35
Tinker, George, 364n55
TOE, see Theory of Everything Tolstoy, Leo, 35
Toscanelli, Paolo dal Pozzo, 119
Trauma: answers to, 16; collective, 224
Trimegestus, Hermes, 116–17
True absolute (Supereminentia), 73
Truth content of faith, 250
Turner, Denys, 59, 67–68, 70; on language, 74
Twofold (zwiefalt), 177
Ullman, Deborah, 304
Unbounded relationalism, 24
Unbroken wholeness, 156–57
Uncertainty, 5, 16–17, 19, 122, 128, 149, 258; climate science and, 269, 274–75, 276, 362n32; known, 7; manage, 25; as possibility, 48; principle, 137, 138; quantum, 121, 147, 313; relational threshold of, 21
The Undivided Universe (Bohm), 155
Undoing Gender (J. Butler), 223
“Unfolded Out of the Folds” (Whitman), 201–2, 349n34
Unfolding (explicatio), 9–10, 88, 93, 112–13, 151, 167, 170; folding philosophy and, 172–80; out of folds, 196–97; out of justice of woman, 201–4; quantum theory and, 158–61; of words, 197–201; see also Explicatio
“Unfolding the Mysteries of the Brain” (Anthes), 348n32
Universalism, 230–31, 298–99, 367n54
Universal relativity, 115, 220–21
Universals, 230–31
Universe: boundless, 117–18; fiber of, 192–94, 209; indivisible, 122; infinity of, 118; mindful, 141–45; participatory, 161; perspective of, 114–15; state of whole, 150–52
Unknowing, 23, 218–19, 229; activity of, 70; alter-knowing and, 213; love and, 81; mindful, 19, 21, 22, 85; see also The Cloud of Unknowing
“Unknowing Animals” (Masciandaro), 81–82
Unknown before me: greeting, 286–88, 303–5; questionable love and, 288–300; recapitulatio doctrine and, 301–2
Unquestionability, 16–17, 332n61
Unsaying, 41; audible, 200–1; of divine, 212; of Earth, 276; of God, 39, 212–13; language, 73; theology, 38–40
Urban II (Pope), 239–40
van der Weyden, Rogier, 87, 91
The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Reflection (Lovelock), 272
Veil, 92
View, 94
Violence, 26, 244–53, 361n2; climate change and, 277–79; of cross, 301–2; dangerous simplifications and, 318n3; divine, 28; global economy and, 253–58; 9/11, 223–24, 227, 243–44; to oneself, 98, 101–2, 109–10, 133; see also Crusader complex; Religious violence
Vision, 88; feedback loop, 95–96; idolization and, 95
Voodoo forces, 136
Wahl, Jean, 176
Waves, 131–32, 140; as potentialities, 141–44
Wegter-McNelly, Kirk, 152–53
Weisbuch, Robert, 347n6
Wenck, Heidelberger John, 119
Wenck, Johannes, 335n119
Western societies, 244–53; capitalism and, 254–58, 263, 268, 275; civilization, 267; Eurocentrism and, 246, 258, 270; modernity and, 246–47; power and, 259–60
Whitehead, Alfred North, 3, 21, 110, 115, 143–44; Butler, J., and, 219, 220–22, 224; Cusa and, 105–9; Deleuze and, 171–72; ecological relationalism and, 232–36; folding philosophy and, 172–80; on freedom, 66–67; God process and, 188–95; Leibniz and, 182–84; on metaphors, 345n56; ontology of, 21, 142, 143, 150–51, 190; on perpetual perishing, 225; philosophy of organism, 175–76, 185; process and, 231–32; readings of, 163; on science and theology, 336n11; Stapp and, 338n54; universal relativity and, 115, 220–21; universals, 230–31; world of becoming and, 262
Whitman, Walt, 194, 196, 214, 347n6, 347n23; Christ and, 210–11; Deleuze and, 197, 199; entanglement of gender and sex and, 201–4; kosmos-persona, 198, 199, 200, 208–9, 211, 217; sexuality of, 204–5, 349n44; see also Leaves of Grass; specific works
Why I Am Not a Secularist (Connolly), 27
Willful nonknowing, 128
Wilson, Eric, 347n5
Winterson, Jeanette, 127
Wolfson, Elliot, 333n75, 371n26
Woman, 201–4; see also Gender
Wood, David, 317n9
“The Word” (Cardenal), 153
Word Made Skin (Mackendrick), 168
World of becoming, 261–63
Worlds without End (Rubenstein), 114
Yada (erotic knowing), 30, 63, 92, 320n30
Zajonc, Arthur G., 148
Zwiefalt (twofold), 177