Thinking Through the Death of God: A Critical Companion to Thomas J.J. Altizer

by McCullough, Lissa; Schroeder, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780791462201
• ISBN10: 079146220X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-10-07
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

The leading exponent of the "death of God" theology of the 1960s, Thomas J. J. Altizer created a media sensation at the time and defined a major new direction in philosophical theology. Altizer has continued to refine his thought throughout his career and his systematic theological work has achieved its prime as shown in this collaborative critical response to his thought. This book is also the first collection of its kind to appear in nearly thirty years and, thus, the first to deal with the most sophisticated period of his work. A response from Altizer is included, along with a comprehensive bibliography of his work.

Table of Contents

Preface
Historical introduction
Rending the veil of the temple : the death of God as Sacrificium Representationis	p. 1
Betraying Altizer	p. 11
Theology as the thinking of passion itself	p. 29
Godhead and God	p. 47
Absolute atonement	p. 65
Crucifixion and alterity : pathways to glory in the thought of Altizer and Levinas	p. 89
The diachrony of the infinite in Altizer and Levinas : vanishing without a trace and the trace without vanishing	p. 105
Abyssal absences : body and place in Altizer's atheology	p. 125
Compassion at the millennium : a Buddhist salvo for the ethics of the apocalypse	p. 147
The negative task of parable : reading Kafka through the prism of Altizer's thought	p. 169
In the wasteland : apocalypse, theology, and the poets	p. 185
Kenosis	p. 197
A response	p. 213
Comprehensive bibliography of Thomas J. J. Altizer	p. 231
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