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Thomas J. J. Altizer Quotes

1927–2018 United States

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.

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Also known as: Thomas Altizer

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No suffering can be foreign to a Christian, not even the anguish that comes with the loss of God.

The Gospel of Christian Atheism (1966)

Theology is now called to listen fully to the world, even if such a listening demands a turning away from the church's witness to Christ.

The Gospel of Christian Atheism (1966)

If Protestant theology has reached the point where it is closed to the challenge of atheism, then it has ceased to be the intellectual vanguard of Christianity.

Toward a New Christianity (1967)

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