| Living the Death of God: A Theological Memoir Contributor(s): Altizer, Thomas J. J. (Author), Taylor, Mark C. (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0791467570 ISBN-13: 9780791467572 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $90.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 2006 Annotation: The notorious "God Is Dead" theologian who scandalized the '60s after cover stories in Time and Life, Altizer intimately relives with us the inner life and thought of radical theology and spiritual crisis. Perhaps our only "atheistic" Buddhist-Christian theologian, Altizer faces theology's decline with new "epic" vision, a contemporary voyage first embodied in Dante, Milton, Blake, and Joyce. By "coincidence of opposites"--affirmation/negation, darkness/light, "flesh"/Spirit, and, tellingly, Satan/Christ -- we voyage into darkness (even "initiation into Satan"), living the death of God that is also resurrection and light. Among Altizer's 13 books, "The Gospel of Christian Atheism, Radical Theology," and "The Death of God "sold more than 100,000. He has taught at Emory and SUNY Stony Brook, and lectures widely. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Religious - Religion | Theology - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2005018665 |
| Physical Information: 210 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Christian - Religious Orientation - Buddhist |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Theologian Thomas J. J. Altizer became both famous and infamous as the chief spokesman for death-of-God theology in the 1960s. In the years that followed, he has created a theological tradition that has influenced all succeeding generations of theologians. Living the Death of God is Altizer's theological memoir. Taking us from his transformation as a theological student to his present life of solitude, Altizer recapitulates the voyage to create a truly new theology. The memoir recounts each stage of this voyage, from being overwhelmed by Satan to a conversion to the death of God and an extensive and even ecstatic preaching of the death of God. However, this is the death of that God who is the wholly alienated God, a death realizing anew the crucified God or the apocalyptic Christ. Written with Altizer's characteristic elegance, this book is fascinating on its own account, but can also serve the reader as a companion or introduction to Altizer's body of work. |