One of America's premiere theologians searches for a proper understanding of the Christian God, which he believes can only be explicated when the question of origin is raised. Altizer discloses the origin of a uniquely Christian freedom while also touching upon such important themes as predestination, the fall, evil, and eternity. Bibliography. Index.
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Thomas J. J. Altizer is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is the author of a number of books, including The Self-Embodiment of God and History as Apocalypse.
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Nothing is more alien to our thinking than the very possibility of the genesis of God, and even if a truly contemporary thinking is precisely that thinking which cannot think God, that is the thinking which is most open to a subversion of our given identity of God. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Christian God, Finnegans Wake, Kingdom of God, New Testament, French Revolution, Middle Ages, God the Creator, Son of God, No-saying of God, City of God, Godhead of God, Milton's Satan, Catholic Church, English Revolution, Summa Theologica, Anna Livia Plurabelle, Christian Church, Eternal Feminine, God of Christian, Haar Faugher, Spinoza's God, The Antichrist New!
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Nothing is more alien to our thinking than the very possibility of the genesis of God, and even if a truly contemporary thinking is precisely that thinking which cannot think God, that is the thinking which is most open to a subversion of our given identity of God. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Christian God, Finnegans Wake, Kingdom of God, New Testament, French Revolution, Middle Ages, God the Creator, Son of God, No-saying of God, City of God, Godhead of God, Milton's Satan, Catholic Church, English Revolution, Summa Theologica, Anna Livia Plurabelle, Christian Church, Eternal Feminine, God of Christian, Haar Faugher, Spinoza's God, The Antichrist New!
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- The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche on 16 pages
- Hegel's Science of Logic by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel on 15 pages
- Phenomenology of Spirit by G. W. F. Hegel on 11 pages
- Paradise Lost (Penguin Classics) by John Milton on 9 pages
- Finnegans Wake (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) by James Joyce on 5 pages
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- The Sacred Desert: Religion, Literature, Art and Culture by David Jasper on page 159, and Back Matter
- A Theology of the Sublime by Clayton Crockett in Back Matter
- A Theology of the Sublime by Clayton Crockett in Back Matter
- New Directions In Philosophical Theology: Essays In Honour Of Don Cupitt by Don Cupitt in Back Matter
- World Without End: Christian Eschatology from a Process Perspective by Joseph A. Bracken on page 28
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