EVERY NOW and then an exceptionable ex·cep·tion·a·ble adj. Open or liable to objection or debate; objectionable or debatable. ex·cep book appears in the market place and such is After the Locusts, Letters from a Landscape of Faith, by Denise M. Ackermann. She is a white South African feminist theologian, part Afrikaner in background, who, in the experience of apartheid and its aftermath, struggled with her faith and theology and discovered a vehicle to express those struggles so that she might write not only for, "the limited inner circle of the academy," but also for, "the general reader, for people in the churches."