Saving God by Johnston, Mark -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Half title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface Chapter 1 Is Your God Really God?

Believing in God On the “Names” of God The Meaning of “God” and the Common Conception of God What is Salvation? Salvation Versus Spiritual Materialism

Chapter 2 The Idolatrous Religions

The Ban on Idolatry Idolatry as Perverse Worship Graven Images and the Highest One Idolatry as Servility The Rhetoric of Idolatrousness The Same God? The Pharisees’ Problem with Jesus Could We Be Idolaters?

Chapter 3 Supernaturalism and Scientism

Scientism and Superstition Supernaturalism Legitimate Naturalism Scientism Versus Science The Argument for Naturalism from True Religion

Chapter 4 The Phenomenological Approach

The Method and the Question Yahweh’s Use of the Method A Criterion, or an Enclosed Circle? Yahweh’s Criterion Applied to Himself Forgiving the God A Reply to Yahweh’s Answer to Job

Chapter 5 Is There an Internal Criterion of Religious Falsehood?

The Pope’s Criterion of Religious Falsehood A Consequence of the Pope’s Criterion Religious and Scientific Fallibilism

Chapter 6 Why God?

Doesn’t Substantive Reasonableness Suffice? The Fall Homo Incurvatus in Se The Redeemer?

Chapter 7 After Monotheism

The Highest One The Tetragrammaton The Paradox of the Highest One Speaking of the Highest One Existents as Dependent Aspects of Existence Itself An Alternative to the Thomistic Interpretation of the Highest One

Chapter 8 Process Panentheism

The Goodness of the Highest One The Analogy of Logos Process Panentheism The Self-Disclosure of Existence Itself The Problem is with the Pantheon

Chapter 9 Panentheism, Not Pantheism

Distinguishing Panentheism and Pantheism Presence Presence as Disclosure Is Being Almost Entirely Wasted? Ubiquitous Presence Against Natural Representation Representation and “Carrying Information” Can Causation Account for Aboutness? What Could Replace the Representationalist Tradition? A Diagnosis of the Representationalist’s Mistake A Transformed Picture of “Consciousness” and Reality Confirming the Surprising Hypothesis

Chapter 10 The Mind of God

The Objectivity of the Realm of Sense How the Structure of Presence Might Impose Evolutionary Constraints Objective Mind and the Mind of the Highest One The Doubly Donatory Character of Reality Does God Exist? The Highest One

Chapter 11 Christianity without Spiritual Materialism

Religion and Violence The Gospel According to Girard Where is Original Sinfulness? Original Sinfulness as Self-Will and False Righteousness Christ Destroys the Kingdom of Self-Will and False Righteousness The Afterlife as an Idolatrous Conceit Against “Man’s Quest for Meaning” The Afterlife as Resistance to Christ Naturalism’s Gift: Resurrection without the Afterlife

Postscript Index