Altizer realizes crucifixion as the creation of contemporary life and reality. Crucifixion interiorizes self hood, what existentialists know as choice or freedom, by making man aware of sin as a human condition. Sin, while negative in its manifestation of guilt, is self actualization. Dialectically to be in Christ is to be in sin that is freedom or independence from God. Christianity is a paradox: in crucifixion man realizes himself in sin that is a source of human liberation from God. If God is present in crucifixion then God is absent in heaven. Every Eucharist is a reenactment of crucifixion that represents human actualization and liberation from God as God.
Altizer realizes crucifixion as the creation of contemporary life and reality. Crucifixion interiorizes self hood, what existentialists know as choice or freedom, by making man aware of sin as a human condition. Sin, while negative in its manifestation of guilt, is self actualization. Dialectically to be in Christ is to be in sin that is freedom or independence from God. Christianity is a paradox: in crucifixion man realizes himself in sin that is a source of human liberation from God. If God is present in crucifixion then God is absent in heaven. Every Eucharist is a reenactment of crucifixion that represents human actualization and liberation from God as God.
I do like the Southern accent though. Nice to see a philosopher who speaks normal English, you know.
Not surprised a southerner would think that his way is normal and all others are abnormal.
Kierkegaard would be enraged to be called a "Hegelian thinker." There's no theologian he hated more.