Personal and non-personal worship
Is it possible to worship a non-personal God? According to some, the answer is no: worship necessarily involves addressing the object of one's worship. Since non-personal gods cannot acknowledge or respond to address, it must be conceptually inappropriate to worship such gods. I object to this...
| Τόπος έκδοσης: | European journal for philosophy of religion |
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| Κύριος συγγραφέας: | |
| Τύπος μέσου: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Άρθρο |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
| Έλεγχος διαθεσιμότητας: | HBZ Gateway |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
| Έκδοση: |
University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2020]
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| Στο/Στη: |
European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Τυποποιημένες (ακολουθίες) λέξεων-κλειδιών: | B
Λατρεία του Θεού
/ Θεός (μοτίβο)
/ Άτομο
/ Λατρεία
/ Πανενθεϊσμός
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| Σημειογραφίες IxTheo: | AB Φιλοσοφία της θρησκείας, Κριτική της θρησκείας, Αθεϊσμός AG Θρησκευτική ζωή, Υλική θρησκεία NBC Δόγμα του Θεού |
| Άλλες λέξεις-κλειδιά: | B
Pantheism
B Worship B Personal B Non-personal |
| Διαθέσιμο Online: |
Volltext (KW) Volltext (doi) |
| Σύνοψη: | Is it possible to worship a non-personal God? According to some, the answer is no: worship necessarily involves addressing the object of one's worship. Since non-personal gods cannot acknowledge or respond to address, it must be conceptually inappropriate to worship such gods. I object to this argument on two fronts. First, I show that the concept of worship used is too narrow, excluding many cases that obviously count as instances of worship. And, secondly, drawing on recent work on the philosophy of object knowledge, I argue that addressing non-personal gods might not be as conceptually confused as it first appears. Thus, it at least possible to worship a non-personal God. |
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| Περιλαμβάνει: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v12i1.2711 |