Godhead and the nothing / Thomas J.J. Altizer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Altizer, Thomas J. J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Death of God theology.

Nihilism--Religious aspects--Christianity.

Nihilism.

Physical Description:

xiii, 165 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2003]

Summary:

An eminent theologian argues that nothingness is necessary in order to fully actualize the Godhead. 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. Virtually unexplored by philosophical and theological thinking, the Nihil is luminously enacted in the deepest expressions of the imagination, and most clearly and decisively so in the Christian epic tradition. Altizer looks at the works of philosophers and theologians such as Spinoza, Barth, Hegel, Nietzsche, and epic writers such as Dante, Milton, and Blake to ultimately posit a God that is necessarily a dichotomous God.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Name of God 1

Chapter 2 Primordial Sacrifice 15

Chapter 3 Primordial Evil 31

Chapter 4 Evil and Nothingness 47

Chapter 5 Evil and the Godhead 65

Chapter 6 The Genesis of Evil 79

Chapter 7 The Transfiguration of Evil 95

Chapter 8 The Self-Saving of God 111

Chapter 9 The Absolute Abyss 127

Chapter 10 The Body of Abyss 143.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0791457966

OCLC:

50761451