THINKING THROUGH THE DEATH OF GOD -- Contents -- Preface BRIAN SCHROEDER -- Acknowledgments -- Historical Introduction LISSA MCCULLOUGH -- Abbreviations -- 1. Rending the Veil of the Temple: The Death of God as Sacrificium Representationis CARL A. RASCHKE -- 2. Betraying Altizer MARK C. TAYLOR -- 3. Theology as the Thinking of Passion Itself LISSA MCCULLOUGH -- 4. Godhead and God RAY L. HART -- 5. Absolute Atonement BRIAN SCHROEDER -- 6. Crucifixion and Alterity: Pathways to Glory in the Thought of Altizer and Levinas EDITH WYSCHOGROD -- 7. The Diachrony of the Infinite in Altizer and Levinas: Vanishing without a Trace and the Trace without Vanishing D. G. LEAHY -- 8. Abyssal Absences: Body and Place in Altizer's Atheology EDWARD S. CASEY -- 9. Compassion at the Millennium: A Buddhist Salvo for the Ethics of the Apocalypse JANET GYATSO -- 10. The Negative Task of Parable: Reading Kafka through the Prism of Altizer's Thought WALTER A. STRAUSS -- 11. In the Wasteland: Apocalypse, Theology, and the Poets DAVID JASPER -- 12. Kenosis ALPHONSO LINGIS -- A Response THOMAS J. J. ALTIZER -- Comprehensive Bibliography of Thomas J.J. Altizer -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.