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:

1 online resource (180 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

The Name of God

Primordial Sacrifice

Primordial Evil

Evil and Nothingness

Evil and the Godhead

The Genesis of Evil

The Transfiguration of Evil

The Self-Saving of God

The Absolute Abyss

The Body of Abyss

Index

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9780791486429

0791486427

9781417506897

141750689X

OCLC:

61367751