Thinking through the Death of God

A Critical Companion to Thomas J. J. Altizer

Edited by Lissa McCullough & Brian Schroeder

Subjects: Theology, Religion, Philosophy Of Religion
Series: SUNY series in Theology and Continental Thought
Paperback : 9780791462201, 284 pages, October 2004
Hardcover : 9780791462195, 284 pages, October 2004

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Table of contents

Preface
BRIAN SCHROEDER

Acknowledgments

Historical Introduction
LISSA MCCULLOUGH

Abbreviations

1. Rending the Veil of the Temple: The Death of God as Sacrificium Representationis
CARL A. RASCHKE

2. Betraying Altizer
MARK C. TAYLOR

3. Theology as the Thinking of Passion Itself
LISSA MCCULLOUGH

4. Godhead and God
RAY L. HART

5. Absolute Atonement
BRIAN SCHROEDER

6. Crucifixion and Alterity: Pathways to Glory in the Thought of Altizer and Levinas
EDITH WYSCHOGROD

7. The Diachrony of the Infinite in Altizer and Levinas: Vanishing without a Trace and the Trace without Vanishing
D. G. LEAHY

8. Abyssal Absences: Body and Place in Altizer's Atheology
EDWARD S. CASEY

9. Compassion at the Millenium: A Buddhist Salvo for the Ethics of the Apocalypse
JANET GYATSO

10. The Negative Task of Parable: Reading Kafka through the Prism of Altizer's Thought
WALTER A. STRAUSS

11. In the Wasteland: Apocalypse, Theology, and the Poets
DAVID JASPER

12. Kenosis
ALPHONSO LINGIS

A Response
THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER

Comprehensive Bibliography of Thomas J. J. Altizer

List of Contributors

Index

A critical exploration of the thought of radical theologian Thomas J. J. Altizer, including a response from Altizer and a comprehensive bibliography of his work.

Description

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.

Lissa McCullough is Assistant Professor of Religion at Muhlenberg College. Brian Schroeder is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Rochester Institute of Technology and is the author of Altared Ground: Levinas, History, and Violence.