Divine Person or Personal Ground of Being?: Making philosophical sense of a theological distinction
In Honest to God, John Robinson distinguished between the idea of the divine as a person and the idea of ultimate reality, or the ground of being, as personal. C. S. Lewis, commenting on this distinction, remarked that, since God is ultimate reality, a personal ultimate reality entails a personal Go...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sage
2009
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Theology
Year: 2009, Volume: 112, Issue: 866, Pages: 92-99 |
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Summary: | In Honest to God, John Robinson distinguished between the idea of the divine as a person and the idea of ultimate reality, or the ground of being, as personal. C. S. Lewis, commenting on this distinction, remarked that, since God is ultimate reality, a personal ultimate reality entails a personal God. This article attempts to defend Robinson's distinction against Lewis's criticism, making use of an influential, though controversial, philosophical theory ofthe self. |
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ISSN: | 2044-2696 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Theology
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1177/0040571X0911200203 |