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By Thomas J. J. Altizer

Within the New Apocalypse, Thomas J. J. Altizer (perhaps the main radical theologian of our age and an enormous exponent of the demise of God theology), advances the thesis that William Blake is the main unique prophet and seer within the background of Christendom, that he created a complete new type of imaginative and prescient embodying a contemporary radical and non secular expression of Christianity, and that an knowing of his progressive paintings calls for a brand new kind of theological figuring out.

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