Encounters with Alphonso Lingis is the first extensive study of this American philosopher who is gaining an international reputation to augment his national one. Lingis's books have already been translated into nearly a dozen languages, and writers from many disciplines are finding his works a source for fresh philosophical and scholarly inquiries. The distinguished contributors to this volume reflect on their own encounters with this unique American thinker as they engage his wor...

Thomas J. J. Altizer, America’s 20th Century Religious Heretic: An Analytic Bibliography of the Writings of Altizer and the Death of God Theme is a 50-year-plus analytical English-language bibliography covering: 1) all the published works by Thomas Altizer and 2) writings of others that have explored the "death of God" theme. The bibliography (including books, journal and magazine articles, newspaper stories, sermons, book reviews, and letters) is arranged chronologically by year....

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 categoryIn 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...

The major death-of-God theologian explores the meaning and purpose of radical theology.In The Call to Radical Theology, Thomas J. J. Altizer meditates on the nature of radical theology and calls readers to undertake the vocation of radical theology as a way of living a fully examined life. In fourteen essays, he explores how the death of God in modernity and the dissolution of divine authority have freed theology to become a mode of ultimate reflection and creative...

Considers the legacy and future of radical theology.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 State...