Satan and Apocalypse

Thomas J. J. Altizer is Professor Emeritus of Religious Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. His many books include The Call to Radical Theology (edited by Lissa McCullough); Living the Death of God: A Theological Memoir; Godhead and the Nothing; The Contemporary Jesus; and History as Apocalypse, all published by SUNY Press.

"This book is the summation of a lifetime of learning and thinking about what it means to live and think in a secular world, particularly in modern North America, as an heir to the Christian tradition, with its orthodoxies and heresies. In an age where so much of the writing on literature and politics is interminably predictable, dull, and smugly moralising, Altizer's Satanic Christianity, as well as his erudition, are a blast of fresh air." — The European Legacy"This is an indispensable work of closure coming from one of contemporary theology's most lucid, original, rebellious, provocative, and passionate voices. Altizer's most central and tenaciously held convictions are distilled into this essential testament." — William Franke, author of Secular Scriptures: Modern Theological Poetics in the Wake of Dante"This book is vintage Altizer: a vast and profound vision of the transformations of interiority, conceptions of the world, and the idea/image of God throughout the time of Western culture. Altizer is an incredible and amazing writer and thinker. I found myself stopped dead in my tracks, left to ponder anew everything that I thought I knew. His intuitions and insights are so penetrating and enlightening that they evoke sheer wonder at the marvel of his accomplishment." — David E. Klemm, coauthor of Religion and the Human Future: An Essay on Theological Humanism

• PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Satan and Apocalypse: A Renewal of Milton and Spinoza2. The Transfi guration of Christianity3. The Absolute Heterodoxy of William Blake4. Nietzsche and Apocalypse5. America and the Death of God6. Joyce and the Christian Epic Tradition7. Revolutionary Apocalypse8. Political Theology: An ApologyEpilogueIndex