Thomas J J Altizer

Biographic Data

ID5144334
NAMEThomas J J Altizer
GIVEN NAMESThomas J J
FAMILY NAMEAltizer
SIGNATUREALTIZER T J J
AFFILIATIONSState University of New York
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS28
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT28
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1951
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
H-INDEX1

  • The Apocalyptic Trinity

    Open AccessThomas J J AltizerBOOKApocalyptic Trinity2012

    This book is a major step forward in radical theology via a sustained and creative challenge to conventional and orthodox thinking on the Trinity. Altizer presents a radical rethinking of the apocalyp

  • The Call to Radical Theology

    Thomas J J Altizer, DAVID E KLEMM et al.BOOKCall to Radical Theology2012

  • The Tragic Trinity

    Open AccessThomas J J AltizerCHAPTERApocalyptic Trinity2012

    If the Trinity is an absolute self-emptying, and an absolute selfemptying that is an absolute self-negation, ultimately the Trinity is a tragic Trinity, and an absolutely tragic Trinity. Although tragedy can only be discovered in ancient Greece and in early and late modernity, it nonetheless is universal, and universal as a negative action that is finally a positive action, or a self-destructive action that is ultimately a transfiguring action. T…

  • The Revolutionary Vision of William Blake

    Open AccessThomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of Religious Ethics2009

    It was William Blake's insight that the Christian churches, by inverting the Incarnation and the dialectical vision of Paul, have repressed the body, divided God from creation, substituted judgment for grace, and repudiated imagination, compassion, and the original apocalyptic faith of early Christianity. Blake's prophetic poetry thus contributes to the renewal of Christian ethics by a process of subversion and negation of Christian moral, eccles…

  • Nietzsche and Asian Thought

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEInternational Studies in Philosophy1994

  • The Challenge of Nihilism

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1994Cited by: 1

    Journal Article The Challenge of Nihilism Get access Thomas J.J. Altizer Thomas J.J. Altizer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXII, Issue 4, Winter 1994, Pages 1013–1022, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXII.4.1013 Published: 01 December 1994

  • Abe's Buddhist Realization of God

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEBuddhist-Christian Studies1993

    Our greatest modern Western thinkers from Spinoza through Hegel, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Whitehead have continually posed the problem as to whether pure thinking is possible apart from the primal presence and realization of God, and this problem is magnified all the more if Eastern thinkers, in absorbing Western thinking, inevitably thereby absorb the category, if not the name, of God. Masao Abe would appear to be such a thinker, and perhaps mo…

  • Hegel and the Christian God

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1991

    Hegel and the Christian God Get access Thomas J.J. Altizer Thomas J.J. Altizer Thomas J.J. Altizer is Professor of Religion at the State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, NY 00794-3725 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIX, Issue 1, Spring 1991, Pages 71–91, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIX.1.71 Published: 01 March 1991

  • To Create the Absolute Edge

    D G Leahy, Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1989

    D. G. Leahy, Thomas J. J. Altizer; To Create the Absolute Edge, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LVII, Issue 4, 1 December 1989, Pages 7

  • I. The Triumph of the Theology of the Word

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1986

    I. THE TRIUMPH OF THE THEOLOGY OF THE WORD Get access Thomas J. J. Altizer Thomas J. J. Altizer State University of New YorkStony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LIV, Issue 3, Fall 1986, Pages 525–529, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LIV.3.525 Published: 01 October 1986

  • Book Notices

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1984

    Journal Article Book Notices Get access Religion and Nothingness. By Keiji Nishitani. Translated by Jan Van Bragt. University of California Press, 1982. 317 pages. $28.50. Thomas J. J. Altizer Thomas J. J. Altizer SUNY, Stony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LII, Issue 1, March 1984, Pages 198–199, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LII.1.198 Published: …

  • Paul and the Birth of Self-Consciousness

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1983

    Paul and the Birth of Self-Consciousness Thomas J. J. Altizer Thomas J. J. Altizer Thomas J. J Altizer is Professor of English and Religious Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook Among his publications are Descent into Hell, The Self-Embodiment of Cod, and Total Presence Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LI, Issue 3, September 1983, Pag…

  • Contemporary Theology

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1982

    CONTEMPORARY THEOLOGY Get access Christ Proclaimed Christology as Rhetoric (Theological Inquiries, Studies in Contemporary Biblical and Theological Problems) By Franz Jozef van BeeckNew York Paulist Press, 1979 xii+616 pages, bibliography, indices $8.95 ISBN 0-8091-2208-1 Thomas J J Altizer Thomas J J Altizer State University of New YorkStony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Ac…

  • Arts, Literature, and Religion

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1979

    Journal Article ARTS, LITERATURE, AND RELIGION Get access Blake and the Assimilation of Chaos. By Christine GallantPrinceton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1978. 198 pages. $12.50. L.C. No. 78-51165. Thomas J. J. Altizer Thomas J. J. Altizer State University of New YorkStony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVII, Issue 3, September 1979, Pages 485…

  • Book Notices

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1979

    Journal Article Book Notices Get access Nietzsche's Existential Imperative. By Bernd Magnus. Bloomington and London. Indiana University Press, 1978. xxiii+231 pages. $17.50. ISBN 0-253-34062-4. Thomas J J Altizer Thomas J J Altizer State University of New York at Stony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLVII, Issue 4, December 1979, Pages 697-a–697, h…

  • The Apocalyptic Identity of the Jew

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1977

    This is an essay review of Terrence Des Pres's The Survivor and of Edmond Jabès's The Book of Questions which poses the question of whether the agony of the Jew in our world has unveiled an apocalyptic identity of the Jew. Des Pres's book is a reflective study of the anatomy of life in the death camps which wholly conjoins moral and biological analysis. Here, life in ultimate extremity reveals the essence of life itself, a life reversing the nega…

  • Contemporary Christian Thought

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1976

    Journal Article CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT Get access Blessed Rage for Order The New Pluralism in Theology By DAVID TRACKYNew York: A Crossroad Book/The Seabury Press, 1975. 271 pages. $12.95. L.C. No 75-8803. THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER State University of New Yorkat Stony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLIV, Issue 2, June 1976, …

  • A New History and a New But Ancient God? A Review-Essay

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1975

    Journal Article A New History and a New But Ancient God? A Review-Essay Get access THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER THOMAS J J ALTIZER is Professor of English and Chairman of Religious Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is author of The Dialectic of the Sacred, The New Apocalypse, and The Descent into Hell Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy …

  • Contemporary Christian Thought

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1974

    Journal Article CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT Get access Tomorrow's Child: Imagination, Creativity, and the Rebirth of Culture By RUBEM A ALVES. New York. Harper & Row, 1972. 210 pages. $6.95 hb L.C No. 77-183637. THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER The State University of New YorkStony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLII, Issue 2, June 1974…

  • Contemporary Christian Thought

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1973

    CONTEMPORARY CHRISTIAN THOUGHT Get access Schweitzer: Prophet of Radical Theology. By JACKSON LEE ICE. Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1971. 208 pages. $7.50. THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER State University of New York at Stony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XLI, Issue 2, June 1973, Pages 269–271, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XLI.…

  • From Death Into Life

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1973

    From Death Into Life: Are Theologians Free Simply to Choose?: A Response to Driver's Challenge Get access THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER is Professor of English and Chairman of the Interdisciplinary Program in Religious Studies at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. Author of numerous works centering on the Death of God controversy, Professor Altizer here responds to Professor Driver's essay review of …

  • Philosophy of Religion and Theology

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1971

    PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION AND THEOLOGY Get access The Radical Kingdom. By ROSEMARY RADFORD RUETHER. New York. Harper & ROW, 1970. 304 Pages. $7.50. THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER State University of New YorkStony Brook Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume XXXIX, Issue 4, December 1971, Page 569, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/XXXIX.4.569 Published: 01 …

  • The Dialectic of Ancient and Modern Apocalypticism

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1971

    Journal Article The Dialectic of Ancient and Modern Apocalypticism Get access THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER, (A.B., A.M., Ph.D., University of Chicago) is chairman of the Interdisciplinary Program in Religious Studies and Professor of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. His most recent book is The Descent Into Hell. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jo…

  • Theological and Philosophical Studies

    Thomas J J AltizerARTICLEJournal of the American Academy…1968

  • Word and History

    Open AccessThomas J J AltizerARTICLETheology Today1965

    “... Faith must come to know the death of God as an historical event witnessing to the advent of a new form of the word. As so conceived only the Christian can truly know the death of God because only the Christian is open to the forward movement of history and the word. Only a new Adam who is liberated from the old creation of the past can celebrate the presence of the word in a new world that negates all previous forms of faith.”