On Fixing the Reference Range Of God'
It is fair enough to refer, as Father Clarke does, to the God of the Christians and the Jews as the one infinite Creator of all other things'. It is reasonable to take God' as a term that has certain conditions associated with it. These conditions fix its meaning. The central conditions...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1966]
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Religious studies
Year: 1966, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 13-36 |
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| Summary: | It is fair enough to refer, as Father Clarke does, to the God of the Christians and the Jews as the one infinite Creator of all other things'. It is reasonable to take God' as a term that has certain conditions associated with it. These conditions fix its meaning. The central conditions associated with God' are: being infinite or unlimited, eternal, self-existent, the creator of everything that exists other than himself, the being upon whom all other beings are dependent but who depends on nothing himself, being personal, good, loving and holy. These conditions determine our concept of God, determine what could count as a referent for the term God'. In short, God, as John Hick remarks, is conceived in Western Religions as the infinite, eternal, uncreated, personal reality, who has created all that exists other than himself, and who has revealed himself to his human creatures as holy and loving'. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Reference: | Kritik in "In Defence of Theism - a Reply to Kai Nielsen (1966)"
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0034412500002560 |