Abstract
William Peter Blatty’s best-known horror novel, The Exorcist (1971), was written at the end of a decade in which a group of self-styled radical theologians in the US had advanced a theology based on the concept of the ‘death of God’. For these theologians, the ‘death’ of a concept of God as wholly transcendent was necessary in order that God could become incarnate in humanity. This chapter reads Blatty’s fiction in the context of ‘Death of God’ theology and argues that, for Blatty, the death of God is an end rather than a beginning of human solidarity. Blatty depicts human solidarity as grounded both in a transcendent God and in a Christology for which the invisible Christ is made present in human acts of self-sacrificial love.
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