Thomas J. J. Altizer is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author of many books, including Living the Death of God: A Theological Memoir, also published by SUNY Press. Lissa McCullough is an independent scholar and coeditor (with Brian Schroeder) of Thinking through the Death of God: A Critical Companion to Thomas J. J. Altizer, also published by SUNY Press.

Foreword by David E. Klemm
Editor's Acknowledgments
Introduction by Lissa McCullough

1. Doing Radical Theology

2. Ancient and Modern Apocalypticism

3. Renewing the Kingdom of God

4. Hegel: The Phenomenology of Spirit as Ground of a Uniquely Modern Theology

5. Nietzsche: Nihilism and the Illusion of Ethics

6. Heidegger: Ereignis and the Nothing

7. Marion: Dionysian Theology as a Catholic Nihilism

8. Contemporary French Thinking and the Primordial

9. Modernity and the Origin of Angst

10. Postmodernity and Guilt

11. The Epic Voyage into Apocalypse

12. Adieu: The Call to Radical Theology

Appendix A: The Gospel of Christian Atheism Reexamined
Appendix B: Altizer on Altizer: A Self-Critique
Works Cited
Index