Speaking of persons, human and divine
Christians commonly speak of and to God as ‘a person’. The propriety of such talk depends on how the concept of a person is being used and understood, and that concept is much contested in contemporary analytic philosophy. In this article, I note the presuppositions of one current debate about what...
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Sophia
Year: 2004, Volume: 43, Issue: 1, Pages: 45-60 |
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