- Paperback: 170 pages
- Publisher: Davies & Assocs (March 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1888570652
- ISBN-13: 978-1888570656
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 14.5 x 1.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 204 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,857,434 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Thomas J.J. Altizer's The New Gospel of Christian Atheism is a largely rewritten version of his earlier classic and controversial book on this subject, which was a major contribution to twentieth century American theology. This revised and updated version is set forth in prose that is at once lucid and bold, and gives us nothing less than a new vision for the postmodern era in original and unforgettable terms.
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True Christianity Finally Explained, Jan 22 2011
By Skadi - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The New Gospel of Christian Atheism (Paperback)
Thomas Altizer finally explains the Christianity that was covered over by the false gospels beginning with Constantine. This is true, unadulterated Christianity that will inspire any of the Elect toward being Christ in the world. This is seership at its finest; this is the path of the Ubermensch. And, everything that he says can be fully backed up by Biblical scripture.
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Somebody somewhere is smart enough to know what to make of this book, Feb 27 2007
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This may be a postmodern tour de force. Or it may be nonsense. It may have made me think but I don't know what it has made me think.Paul, John, Augustine, Luther, Blake, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Hegel, Joyce, and so on. Incarnation, crucifixion, resurrection, apocalypse, all given a new spin. But where?
What do you do with a book like this? Has it raised too many questions and perhaps answered none? Can you recognize Christianity in its pages? Has Altizer somehow found a bewildering way to bring the revolutionary Jesus to life?
Did you think you might be comforted? Did you think you might find the way to Rome?
What have they done to Jesus, the orthodox, the Gnostics, the logical philosphers and the pleasant storytellers? Can you consider the crucifixion afresh, can you look back again on the history of the West, without being shocked?
This is not a simple book but neither is it postmodern play. There's are real challenges in these pages. Working within theologizing, Altizer is out to shove you to take up some cross and go some where for someones' sake. And several millenia will be on your back. And you will feel it.
In the "Politics of Experience", the great psychiatrist R.D. Laing wrote: "If I could turn you on, if I could drive you out of your wretched mind, if I could tell you, I would let you know." Altizer may have done just this for those of us who have become at all settled in their beliefs.
If you don't want to be challenged, hurry back to your church and Bible study group, before you begin to feel Altizer's pull. This is not a book I can follow in one reading. I haven't understood what all this would mean for my daily life, but Western intellectual history may never be the same.
06/16/07: I just read Altizer's Living the Death of God: A Theological Memoir. I don't doubt that his writing is provocative and would make for a healthy challenge for orthodox Christians, but I'm more concerned now that he may enjoy the kind of wordplay "postmodern" writers seem to fall victim to. I'm also not clear from this book that he understands Gnostic Christianity (or Buddhism, although I am sure he must and has written elsewhere about these) although he does seem to acknowledge some power of Gnostic Christianity. But, as most often, it seems impossible to be clear just what he is saying.
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