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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910968843103321
• Autore: Altizer Thomas J. J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2003
• ISBN: 9780791486429; 0791486427; 9781417506897; 141750689X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (180 p.)
• Disciplina: 230
• Soggetti: Death of God theology; Nihilism - Religious aspects - Christianity
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.