Quote of the day
It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
Thomas J. J. Altizer

Born: September 28, 1927
Died: November 28, 2018 (aged 91)
Bio: Thomas Jonathan Jackson Altizer was a radical theologian who is known for incorporating Friedrich Nietzsche's conception of the "death of God" and G. W. F. Hegel's dialectical philosophy into his systematic theology.
Known for:
- History as apocalypse (1985)
- Living the death of God (2006)
- The self-embodiment of God (1977)
- The contemporary Jesus (1997)
- Godhead and the Nothing (2003)