Question
This theologian recalled his time living in isolation in Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania in his memoir Living the Death of God. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this author of The Gospel of Christian Atheism. He gained notoriety in the 1960s for his many media appearances in which he explained Death of God theology.
ANSWER: Thomas J. J. Altizer [or Thomas Jonathan Jackson Altizer]
[10m] A 2006 book by Altizer examines this theological concept by comparing it to philosophical nothingness. This English term refers to the essence or substance of God, and the Trinity is often defined as “three persons” in “one” of this term.
ANSWER: Godhead
[10e] Altizer’s second book examined Mircea Eliade’s (“MEER-chay-ah ay-lee-AH-day’s”) “dialectic of” this concept. In religious studies, transcendent referents known by this term are contrasted with worldly things known as “the profane.”
ANSWER: the sacred [or sacré or sacru]
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