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

by McCullough, Lissa; Schroeder, Brian

• ISBN13: 9780791462195
• ISBN10: 0791462196
• Format: Hardcover
• 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	vii
Brian Schroeder
Acknowledgments	xiii
Historical Introduction	xv
Lissa McCullough
List of Abbreviations	xxix
Rending the Veil of the Temple: The Death of God as Sacrificium Representationis	1	(10)
Carl A. Raschke
Betraying Altizer	11	(18)
Mark C. Taylor
Theology as the Thinking of Passion Itself	29	(18)
Lissa McCullough
Godhead and God	47	(18)
Ray L. Hart
Absolute Atonement	65	(24)
Brian Schroeder
Crucifixion and Alterity: Pathways to Glory in the Thought of Altizer and Levinas	89	(16)
Edith Wyschogrod
The Diachrony of the Infinite in Altizer and Levinas: Vanishing without a Trace and the Trace without Vanishing	105	(20)
D. G. Leahy
Abyssal Absences: Body and Place in Altizer's Atheology	125	(22)
Edward S. Casey
Compassion at the Millennium: A Buddhist Salvo for the Ethics of the Apocalypse	147	(22)
Janet Gyatso
The Negative Task of Parable: Reading Kafka through the Prism of Altizer's Thought	169	(16)
Walter A. Strauss
In the Wasteland: Apocalypse, Theology, and the Poets	185	(12)
David Jasper
Kenosis	197	(16)
Alphonso Lingis
A Response	213	(18)
Thomas J.J. Altizer
Comprehensive Bibliography of Thomas J.J. Altizer	231	(14)
List of Contributors	245	(4)
Index	249