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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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 Hebrew Hegel Holy Spirit human reason human soul idea ideal imagination imperfect infinite intellectual intelligence Jesus Karl Barth knowledge later least less limited 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 Teilhard theism theology things thinkers thought Tillich timeless tion totally transcendent Trinity truth ultimate unchanging understanding unity universe Whitehead word Yahweh York Zoroaster Zoroastrian