"God" the name
The word God' is typically thought to be a proper name, a name of a defined entity. From another position it appears to be a description that is fundamentally synonymous to the first of all causes', or the font et origo of the structure of possibilities', or the provenience of bei...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham
[2020]
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European journal for philosophy of religion
Year: 2020, Volume: 12, Issue: 1, Pages: 91-115 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
God
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/ Person
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| IxTheo Classification: | AB Philosophy of religion; criticism of religion; atheism NBC Doctrine of God |
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| Summary: | The word God' is typically thought to be a proper name, a name of a defined entity. From another position it appears to be a description that is fundamentally synonymous to the first of all causes', or the font et origo of the structure of possibilities', or the provenience of being', or the generator of existence'. This lends credence to the view that God' is a truncated definite description. However, this article proposes that God' is a name given to whatever is that which is the first of all causes, the font et origo of the structure of possibilities, the provenience of being, the generator of existence. If so, then it is a descriptive name. Yet even among descriptive names God' is unique, for it is neither convertible to a proper name (unlike Neptune'), nor to a definite description (unlike Jack the Ripper' and Deep Throat'). God' is an inveterate descriptive name. |
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| Contains: | Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v12i1.3232 |