In his Preface to The Gospel of Christian Atheism, Thomas J. J. Altizer proclaims his appreciation of Tillich. He writes, "Among twentieth-century theologians, it was Tillich alone who made possible a way to a truly contemporary theology."¹ Altizer, the important death of God theologian, claims that while he has had to disagree with Tillich's conclusions: nevertheless, "I do so with the conviction that they are not yet radical enough, and with the memory of Tillich 's words to me that the real Tillich is the radical Tillich."² This is a strange statement by Altizer. Tillich 's manifest theological conclusions are not radical enough, and yet the "real" Tillich is the radical Tillich, and this is reportedly from Tillich himself.