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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.
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.
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