Resurrecting the Death of God
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Resurrecting the Death of God

The Origins, Influence, and Return of Radical Theology

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Resurrecting the Death of God

The Origins, Influence, and Return of Radical Theology

About this book

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. Meanwhile, Christian fundamentalism staged a striking comeback in the United States. Yet, death of God, or radical, theology has had an ongoing influence on contemporary theology and philosophy. Contributors to this book explore the origins, influence, and legacy of radical theology and go on to take it in new directions. In a time when fundamentalism is the greatest religious temptation, this volume makes the case for the necessity of resurrecting the death of God.

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Index
absence of Presence (Daly), 129–130
Absolute Hymen, 129, 130–131
Absolute Idealism, 166
Adorno, Theodor, 155, 156
After Auschwitz (Rubenstein), 24, 29, 47–48
After God (Taylor), 9, 16–17n7
afterlife, 99. See also resurrection
Altizer, Thomas J. J., 1–11, 13, 18n31, 24–25, 26–28, 59–69, 73, 83, 90–95, 97, 125–129, 133, 141–148, 150, 154n33, 171n46, 186n16, 187–191
background, 26
Christian atheism, 60–62, 68, 68n2
coincidence of opposites, 26, 37–38, 65, 67, 95, 126–135, 144
death of God, 24, 26–27, 37–38, 59–60, 68, 71, 78, 91–92, 125–126, 142–143, 168, 179–180
on faith and culture, 62–63
feminist theology and, 26
influence, 59–62, 66–68
Jesus/Christ and, 61, 90–91, 95
kenosis and, 3–4, 9, 18n28, 26–27, 127–129, 132
nihilism and, 7–9, 15, 179–180, 182
on theological style, 63–66
Time magazine article and death of God, 1–2, 23, 25, 48, 59, 68
American imperialism, 24, 34–36
American Revolution, 115–118, 120
Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches, 52–53
Anonymous God (Vahanian), 27, 133–134
Anti-Christ (Nietzsche), 131
anti-Semitism, 51–53, 79, 81. See also post-Holocaust theology
antiwar protests, 84
apocalypticism, 8, 26, 64, 128, 132, 136n11, 188
apophasis, 1...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Editor’s Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: Resurrecting the Death of God
  7. I. The Modern Death of God: Origins and Influence
  8. II. The Second Coming of Radical Theology
  9. Afterword
  10. Contributors
  11. Index
  12. Back Cover