Satan and Apocalypse
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Satan and Apocalypse

And Other Essays in Political Theology

  1. 132 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Satan and Apocalypse

And Other Essays in Political Theology

About this book

Offers a profound vision of the Christian epic as the site of the modern apocalyptic reenactment of the original apocalypse.

Finalist for the 2017 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award in the Religion category

In this series of essays, Thomas J. J. Altizer explores the Christian epic as the site of modern revolutionary apocalyptic reenactments and renewals of the original apocalypse enacted by Jesus Christ and primitive Christianity. Beginning with the pivotal seventeenth-century figures Milton and Spinoza, Altizer analyzes the apocalyptic visions of key figures of modernity, including Blake, Hegel, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Joyce, often juxtaposing them to surprising and illuminating effect. These revolutionary moments stand in opposition to what Altizer calls the pathological modern counterrevolution that dominates the world today, which is an effect of a new postmodernity and of a progressive dissolution of historical consciousness. Through his analysis of modern apocalyptic moments and thinkers, this book becomes an elegant and accessible guide to Altizer's own apocalyptic vision and his ultimate project of the total and comprehensive reconstruction of theology.

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Information

Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9781438466729
9781438466736
eBook ISBN
9781438466743
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Preface
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Chapter 1 Satan and Apocalypse: A Renewal of Milton and Spinoza
  8. Chapter 2 The Transfiguration of Christianity
  9. Chapter 3 The Absolute Heterodoxy of William Blake
  10. Chapter 4 Nietzsche and Apocalypse
  11. Chapter 5 America and the Death of God
  12. Chapter 6 Joyce and the Christian Epic Tradition
  13. Chapter 7 Revolutionary Apocalypse
  14. Chapter 8 Political Theology: An Apology
  15. Epilogue
  16. Index
  17. Back Cover

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