Thomas jj altizer biography

American professor and theologian

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.

He regarded his philosophical theology as also being grounded in the works of William Blake and considered his theology to have come into its own with his extended study of Blake's radical visionary thinking: The New Apocalypse: The Radical Christian Vision of William Blake (1967); indeed he regarded himself as the first and only fully Blakean theologian.^[1][2][3]

Education

Altizer was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on May 28, 1927,^[4] and grew up with two sisters^[5][6] in Charleston, West Virginia.^[1] He attended St.

John's College in Annapolis, Maryland, and the University of Chicago, from which