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Product Description: Considers the legacy and future of radical theology.In 1966, an infamous Time magazine cover asked “Is God Dead?” and brought the ideas of theologians William Hamilton and Thomas J. J. Altizer to the wider public. In the years that followed, both men suffered professionally and there was no notable increase to the small number of thinkers considered death of God theologians...read more
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9781438450452 | State Univ of New York Pr, May 1, 2014, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: In 1966, an infamous "Time" magazine cover asked Is God Dead?

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9781438450469 | State Univ of New York Pr, January 2, 2015, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Considers the legacy and future of radical theology.

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Product Description: For 50 years Thomas J.J. Altizer has been at the forefront of public and academic debate in theology and the philosophy of religion. The central figure of the so-called 'death of god' debate of the 1960s, Altizer has continued to write on the issues and conditions for theology in modernity, and to influence new generations of students, scholars and readers worldwide, arguing for a Christian atheism that challenges institutional, orthodox Christianity to its core...read more

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9781137276209 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 24, 2012, cover price $105.00 | About this edition: For 50 years Thomas J.

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9781137276216 | Palgrave Macmillan, December 24, 2012, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: For 50 years Thomas J.

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9780791467572 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 12, 2006, cover price $74.50

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9780791467589 | State Univ of New York Pr, July 30, 2006, cover price $31.95

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Product Description: Eminent theologian Thomas J. J. Altizer breaks new ground by exploring the ultimate transfiguration of the Godhead as a question of the Nihil or nothingness and God. The Nihil is essential to the full actualization of the Godhead in that it fully occurs in both a primordial and an apocalyptic sacrifice of the Godhead...read more

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9780791457955 | State Univ of New York Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $62.50 | About this edition: Eminent theologian Thomas J.

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9780791457962 | State Univ of New York Pr, August 1, 2003, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Eminent theologian Thomas J.

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Product Description: In The New Apocalypse, Thomas J. J. Altizer (perhaps the most radical theologian of our age and a major exponent of the death of God theology), advances the thesis that William Blake is the most original prophet and seer in the history of Christendom, that he created a whole new form of vision embodying a modern radical and spiritual expression of Christianity, and that an understanding of his revolutionary work demands a new form of theological understanding...read more

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9781888570564 | Davies & Assocs, June 1, 2000, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: In The New Apocalypse, Thomas J.

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Product Description: The Contemporary Jesus is the first critical study integrating a contemporary understanding of Jesus with the most powerful, imaginative visions of Jesus in our history. The book imaginatively engages many views of Jesus: an apocalyptic Jesus, gnostic Jesus, Buddhist Jesus, Pauline Jesus, Crossan s Jesus, and the Catholic, Protestant, and nihilistic views found in writers such as Dante, Joyce, Milton, Blake, Dostoyevsky, and Nietzsche...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780791433751 | State Univ of New York Pr, February 1, 1997, cover price $52.50 | About this edition: The Contemporary Jesus is the first critical study integrating a contemporary understanding of Jesus with the most powerful, imaginative visions of Jesus in our history.

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9780791433768 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 1, 1997, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: The Contemporary Jesus is the first critical study integrating a contemporary understanding of Jesus with the most powerful, imaginative visions of Jesus in our history.

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Product Description: Thomas Altizer, one of America's premier theologians, searches for a proper understanding of the Christian God, which he believes can only be explicated when the question of origin is raised. He begins with an investigation of Hegelian thinking, develops his insights in dialogue with such thinkers as Augustine and Nietzsche, and then focuses on notions generated by the Christian epic poetry of Dante, Milton, and Blake...read more

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9780664219963 | Westminster John Knox Pr, October 1, 1993, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: One of America's premiere theologians searches for a proper understanding of the Christian God, which he believes can only be explicated when the question of origin is raised.

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9780664221638 | Westminster John Knox Pr, December 1, 1993, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Thomas Altizer, one of America's premier theologians, searches for a proper understanding of the Christian God, which he believes can only be explicated when the question of origin is raised.

Product Description: Thomas Altizer's Genesis and Apocalypse engages a theological history of Western culture through the works of Augustine, Luther, Barth, and other important figures in theology, as well as critical theorists such as Hegel and Nietzsche, to ultimately offer a Christology for our modern times...read more

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9780664219321 | Westminster John Knox Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Thomas Altizer's Genesis and Apocalypse engages a theological history of Western culture through the works of Augustine, Luther, Barth, and other important figures in theology, as well as critical theorists such as Hegel and Nietzsche, to ultimately offer a Christology for our modern times.

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9780664221836 | Westminster John Knox Pr, December 1, 1990, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Thomas Altizer's Genesis and Apocalypse engages a theological history of Western culture through the works of Augustine, Luther, Barth, and other important figures in theology, as well as critical theorists such as Hegel and Nietzsche, to ultimately offer a Christology for our modern times.

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Product Description: A dialogue on the significance of deconstruction for theology between four academics prominent in contemporary discussions on the subject.

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9780813912462 | Univ of Virginia Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $28.50 | About this edition: A dialogue on the significance of deconstruction for theology between four academics prominent in contemporary discussions on the subject.

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Product Description: Traces the interior, evolutionary movement of biblical moments and movements of Genesis, Exodus, Judgement, Incarnation and Apocalypse by meditating on speech and silence in the biblical text of the Old Testament, or Torah. This profoundly moving meditation by a Christian dialectical theologian finds a home in the classical academic literature of Judaism, by virtue of the author's emphasis on the search for words to express man's encounter with the living God...read more

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9780819164674 | Univ Pr of Amer, November 1, 1987, cover price $45.99 | About this edition: Traces the interior, evolutionary movement of biblical moments and movements of Genesis, Exodus, Judgement, Incarnation and Apocalypse by meditating on speech and silence in the biblical text of the Old Testament, or Torah.

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Product Description: History as Apocalypse is a reenactment of the history of the Western consciousness from the Homeric and Biblica revolutions through Finnegans Wake. This occurs through a historical, literary, and theological analysis of the Christian epic tradition...read more

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9780887060137 | State Univ of New York Pr, March 1, 1985, cover price $74.50

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9780887060144 | State Univ of New York Pr, June 1, 1985, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: History as Apocalypse is a reenactment of the history of the Western consciousness from the Homeric and Biblica revolutions through Finnegans Wake.

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Product Description: In The New Apocalypse, Thomas J. J. Altizer (perhaps the most radical theologian of our age and a major exponent of the death of God theology), advances the thesis that William Blake is the most original prophet and seer in the history of Christendom, that he created a whole new form of vision embodying a modern radical and spiritual expression of Christianity, and that an understanding of his revolutionary work demands a new form of theological understanding...read more

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9780870131080 | Michigan State Univ Pr, June 1, 1967, cover price $8.50 | About this edition: In The New Apocalypse, Thomas J.

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