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Thomas Jonathan Jackson Altizer (May 28, 1927 – November 28, 2018) was an American university professor, religious scholar, and theologian, noted for his incorporation of Death of God theology and Hegelian dialectical philosophy into his body of work.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 44 relations: Annapolis, Maryland, Anthroposophy, Augustine of Hippo, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Carl Jung, Charleston, West Virginia, Christian atheism, Christian countercult movement, Crawfordsville, Indiana, Crucifixion of Jesus, Death of God theology, Death threat, Dialectic, Easter, Emory University, Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gabriel Vahanian, Immanence, Is God Dead?, Jesus, Joachim Wach, John Warwick Montgomery, Mircea Eliade, Nihilism, Owen Barfield, Paul van Buren, Pennsylvania, Pocono Mountains, Professor, Religious studies, Richard L. Rubenstein, Spirit possession, St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe), Stony Brook University, Theology, Time (magazine), Transcendence (religion), University of Chicago, Wabash College, Walter Ralston Martin, Will (philosophy), William Blake, William Hamilton (theologian).

  2. Atheist theologians
  3. Death of God theologians
  4. Lay theologians
  5. Wabash College faculty

Annapolis, Maryland

Annapolis is the capital of the U.S. state of Maryland.

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Anthroposophy

Anthroposophy is a spiritual new religious movement -->Sources for 'new religious movement': which was founded in the early 20th century by the esotericist Rudolf Steiner that postulates the existence of an objective, intellectually comprehensible spiritual world, accessible to human experience.

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Augustine of Hippo

Augustine of Hippo (Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts

Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology.

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Charleston, West Virginia

Charleston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia and the county seat of Kanawha County.

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Christian atheism

Christian atheism is an ideology that embraces the teachings, narratives, symbols, practices, or communities associated with Christianity without accepting the literal existence of God.

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Christian countercult movement

The Christian countercult movement or the Christian anti-cult movement is a social movement among certain Protestant evangelical and fundamentalist and other Christian ministries ("discernment ministries") and individual activists who oppose religious sects that they consider cults.

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Crawfordsville, Indiana

Crawfordsville is a city in Montgomery County in west central Indiana, United States, west by northwest of Indianapolis.

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Crucifixion of Jesus

The crucifixion of Jesus occurred in 1st-century Judaea, most likely in AD 30 or AD 33.

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Death of God theology

Death of God theology refers to a range of ideas by various theologians and philosophers that try to account for the rise of secularity and abandonment of traditional beliefs in God.

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Death threat

A death threat is a threat, often made anonymously, by one person or a group of people to kill another person or group of people.

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Dialectic

Dialectic (διαλεκτική, dialektikḗ; Dialektik), also known as the dialectical method, refers originally to dialogue between people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to arrive at the truth through reasoned argumentation.

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Easter

Easter, also called Pascha (Aramaic, Greek, Latin) or Resurrection Sunday, is a Christian festival and cultural holiday commemorating the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, described in the New Testament as having occurred on the third day of his burial following his crucifixion by the Romans at Calvary.

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Emory University

Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Evil

Evil, by one definition, is being bad and acting out morally incorrect behavior; or it is the condition of causing unnecessary pain and suffering, thus containing a net negative on the world.

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Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (15 October 1844 – 25 August 1900) was a German classical scholar, philosopher, and critic of culture, who became one of the most influential of all modern thinkers.

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Gabriel Vahanian

Gabriel Vahanian (in Armenian Գաբրիէլ Վահանեան; 24 January 1927 – 30 August 2012) was a French Protestant Christian theologian who was most remembered for his pioneering work in the theology of the "death of God" movement within academic circles in the 1960s, and who taught for 26 years in the U.S. Thomas J. J. Altizer and Gabriel Vahanian are death of God theologians and lay theologians.

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Immanence

The doctrine or theory of immanence holds that the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world.

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Is God Dead?

"Is God Dead?" was an April 8, 1966, cover story for the news magazine Time.

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Jesus

Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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Joachim Wach

Joachim Ernst Adolphe Felix Wach (January 25, 1898 – August 27, 1955) was a German religious scholar from Chemnitz, who emphasized a distinction between the Religious Studies (Religionswissenschaft) and the philosophy of religion.

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John Warwick Montgomery

John Warwick Montgomery (born October 18, 1931) is an American-British lawyer, professor, Lutheran theologian, and author living in France. Thomas J. J. Altizer and John Warwick Montgomery are 20th-century American theologians and 21st-century American theologians.

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Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade (– April 22, 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago.

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Nihilism

Nihilism is a family of views within philosophy that rejects generally accepted or fundamental aspects of human existence, such as knowledge, morality, or meaning.

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Owen Barfield

Arthur Owen Barfield (9 November 1898 – 14 December 1997) was an English philosopher, author, poet, critic, and member of the Inklings.

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Paul van Buren

Paul Matthews van Buren (April 20, 1924 – June 18, 1998) was a Christian theologian and author. Thomas J. J. Altizer and Paul van Buren are death of God theologians.

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Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania, officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Pennsylvania Dutch), is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States.

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Pocono Mountains

The Pocono Mountains, commonly referred to as the Poconos, are a geographical, geological, and cultural region in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

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Professor

Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries.

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Religious studies

Religious studies, also known as the study of religion, is the scientific study of religion.

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Richard L. Rubenstein

Richard Lowell Rubenstein (January 8, 1924 – May 16, 2021) was a theologian, educator, and writer, noted particularly for his path-breaking contributions to post-Holocaust theology and his socio-political analyses of surplus populations and bureaucracy. Thomas J. J. Altizer and Richard L. Rubenstein are death of God theologians.

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Spirit possession

Spirit possession is an unusual or an altered state of consciousness and associated behaviors which are purportedly caused by the control of a human body and its functions by spirits, ghosts, demons, angels, or gods.

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St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe)

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Stony Brook University

Stony Brook University (SBU), officially the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is a public research university on Long Island in Stony Brook, New York.

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Theology

Theology is the study of religious belief from a religious perspective, with a focus on the nature of divinity.

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Time (magazine)

Time (stylized in all caps as TIME) is an American news magazine based in New York City.

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Transcendence (religion)

In religion, transcendence is the aspect of existence that is completely independent of the material universe, beyond all known physical laws.

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University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.

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Wabash College

Wabash College is a private liberal arts men's college in Crawfordsville, Indiana.

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Walter Ralston Martin

Walter Ralston Martin (September 10, 1928 – June 26, 1989) was an American Baptist Christian minister and author who founded the Christian Research Institute in 1960 as a parachurch ministry specializing as a clearing-house of information in both general Christian apologetics and in countercult apologetics. Thomas J. J. Altizer and Walter Ralston Martin are 20th-century American theologians.

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Will (philosophy)

Will, within philosophy, is a faculty of the mind.

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William Blake

William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English poet, painter, and printmaker. Thomas J. J. Altizer and William Blake are death of God theologians.

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William Hamilton (theologian)

William Hughes Hamilton III (March 9, 1924 – February 28, 2012) was a prominent theologian and proponent of the Death of God movement. Thomas J. J. Altizer and William Hamilton (theologian) are 20th-century American theologians, 21st-century American theologians, American Christian theologians and death of God theologians.

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See also

Atheist theologians

Death of God theologians

Lay theologians

Wabash College faculty

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._J._Altizer

Also known as Thomas Altizer, Thomas J J Altizer, Thomas J.J. Altizer, Thomas JJ Altizer.