Queering the Apocalypse: Reading Catherine Keller's Apocalypse Now and Then

Abstract

This essay examines the meanings of gay marginalization/ghettoization and HIV/AIDS through the lens of Catherine Keller's (1996) most recent work, Apocalypse Now and Then. As I read her text about John's text, like the rabbinical commentators of old, I literally inscribed the margins of her text with my responses and insights, creating a marginal text from/with my own marginalization as a gay male (eco)theologian and (sexual) ethicist living with HIV/AIDS. This essay reads off those edges and reads from the margins, weaving together these multiple texts in order to create a speculative, interpretive tool for understanding multiple margin(alization)s within the further (con)text(s) of liberatory religious studies and ethics, men's studies, and queer studies.

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