Thomas J.J. Altizer and the Death of God
“My god, my god, why have you abandoned me?”
I recently finished reading a book that left my head spinning: the late radical theologian Thomas J.J. Altizer’s Living the Death of God: A Theological Memoir (SUNY Press, 2006). Altizer is one of those thinkers I’ve had a hard time grasping, but relatively recently I’ve come to understand him a bit more readily. If you…