Portraits of God: Word Pictures of the Deity from the Earliest Times Through TodayIf God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated--Voltaire. God is love--1 John 4:8Portraits of God painted with words have ranged from prehistoric conceptions of the Earth Mother to more elaborate sophisticated visions: God as craftsman, a multiple deity, an illusion, one's highest self, the Omega point.... This book presents sixty-some selections, including many fascinating exchanges in the 16th-19th centuries that constitute the main body of modern Western philosophy, religious or otherwise. |
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... meaning of " substance " was changed so that it could no longer be applied reasonably to anything , but only to God . This was Spinoza's starting point : since there could be only one Substance , God and the universe must be the ...
... meaning of " substance " was changed so that it could no longer be applied reasonably to anything , but only to God . This was Spinoza's starting point : since there could be only one Substance , God and the universe must be the ...
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... meaning . God is eternal , he argued , but not in the sense that he is " beyond " time , as though time could have its own separate ex- istence . Rather , God is time - less , with the privative " -less " used somewhat as in such words ...
... meaning . God is eternal , he argued , but not in the sense that he is " beyond " time , as though time could have its own separate ex- istence . Rather , God is time - less , with the privative " -less " used somewhat as in such words ...
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... meaning to every human life and to human history . And so Tillich , thus fortified by revelation , was able to ascribe some attributes to God in symbolic , or metaphorical , terms . God is personal , for instance , but only in the sense ...
... meaning to every human life and to human history . And so Tillich , thus fortified by revelation , was able to ascribe some attributes to God in symbolic , or metaphorical , terms . God is personal , for instance , but only in the sense ...
Contents
Brahman | 14 |
The Good Craftsman Plato 427?347 B C | 36 |
The Radiant One Plotinus 205?207 | 49 |
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absolute acceptance activity Ahura Mazda all-knowing all-powerful Allah analogy Aquinas argument Aristotle aspect attributes Augustine belief Brahman called century B.C. Christ Christian concept consciousness considered created creation Creator deities divine Enlil especially eternal existence experience faith Father Fechner finite freedom Gautama God's godlings gods Greek Hebrews Hegel Holy Spirit human reason human soul idea ideal imperfect infinite intellectual intelligence Jesus Karl Barth knowledge least less limited Mahayana Maimonides mankind merely mind monotheism mysterious mystical nature Nicholas of Cusa notion offered Omega Point panpsychism pantheism perfect philosophers physical Plato Plotinus portrait problem problem of evil Ramanuja rational reality relationship religion religious revealed role scriptures seems sense simply Sky Father substance suffering supreme T'ien Teilhard theism theology things thinkers thought Tillich timeless tion totally transcendent Trinity truth ultimate unchanging understanding unity universe Whitehead word Yahweh York Zoroaster Zoroastrian