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

Cover Page......Page 1
Title Page......Page 4
ISBN 0791462196, 079146220X......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Preface BRIAN SCHROEDER......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Historical Introduction LISSA MCCULLOUGH......Page 16
Abbreviations......Page 30
1. Rending the Veil of the Temple: The Death of God as Sacrificium Representationis CARL A. RASCHKE......Page 32
2. Betraying Altizer MARK C. TAYLOR......Page 42
3. Theology as the Thinking of Passion Itself LISSA MCCULLOUGH......Page 60
4. Godhead and God RAY L. HART......Page 78
5. Absolute Atonement BRIAN SCHROEDER......Page 96
6. Crucifixion and Alterity: Pathways to Glory in the Thought of Altizer and Levinas EDITH WYSCHOGROD......Page 120
7. The Diachrony of the Infinite in Altizer and Levinas: Vanishing without a Trace and the Trace without Vanishing D. G. LEAHY......Page 136
8. Abyssal Absences: Body and Place in Altizer’s Atheology EDWARD S. CASEY......Page 156
9. Compassion at the Millennium: A Buddhist Salvo for the Ethics of the Apocalypse JANET GYATSO......Page 178
10. The Negative Task of Parable: Reading Kafka through the Prism of Altizer’s Thought WALTER A. STRAUSS......Page 200
11. In the Wasteland: Apocalypse, Theology, and the Poets DAVID JASPER......Page 216
12. Kenosis ALPHONSO LINGIS......Page 228
A Response THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER......Page 244
Comprehensive Bibliography of Thomas J.J. Altizer......Page 262
Contributors......Page 276
C......Page 280
E......Page 281
J......Page 282
O......Page 283
S......Page 284
Z......Page 285