The Many Ways God Is: Ontological Pluralism and Traditional Christian Theism

• Authors: Mark Mcleod-Harrison
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Traditional Christianity holds that God is a singular way, not dependent on the conceptual machinations of humans. I argue that God can be plural ways, different in different human conceptual schemes, all the while holding to traditional Christianity. In short, I provide a framework for an ontological pluralism that extends not just to the world being various ways but to God being various ways.

Keywords

EN

God; Christianity; Religious Diversity; Pluralism; Theism; Ontology

• Publisher: Akademia Ignatianum w Krakowie
• Journal: Forum Philosophicum
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 14
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 259-276

Dates

published

2009

Contributors

author

Mark Mcleod-Harrison

• George Fox University, USA

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DOI

10.5840/forphil20091425

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