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Literature and Theology Advance Access originally published online on October 22, 2007
Literature and Theology 2007 21(4):347-361; doi:10.1093/litthe/frm037
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An Absolutely New Space

Thomas J. J. Altizer

tjja{at}verizon.net


  Abstract

This article engages with the initially scientific, and then philosophical and theological, transfigurations of space that have occurred since the seventeenth century, as they lead us towards a radical praxis of a nihilistic space. It is the epic poets, such as Dante, Milton, Blake and Joyce, who provide the parameters of an absolutely new space, a revolutionary transfiguration of space and God; it is the great epics that intimately influence real space through an enactment of universal liturgy and ritual. Such enactment draws us inescapably into a uniquely apocalyptic nihilism, but one to be affirmed and embraced rather than denied.


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