These texts, The Altar (1917) by Martin Buber and Chromatic Atheology by Jean-Luc Nancy, work together to analyze the philosophical and theological implications of Matthias Grünewald’s Isenheim Altarpiece. Nancy performs a close reading of Buber’s The Altar in order to draw our attention to potentially atheological aspects of the German Jewish philosopher’s thinking, grounded in his analysis of the Isenheim Altarpiece, and in particular in its color.
