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

Mark McLeod-Harrison

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

Article

14/2 - Fall 2009, pages 259-276

Date of online publication: 15 novembre 2009

Date of publication: 01 novembre 2009

Abstract

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.

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McLeod-Harrison, Mark. “The Many Ways God Is: Ontological Pluralism and Traditional Christian Theism.” Forum Philosophicum 14, no. 2 (2009): 259–76. doi:10.35765/forphil.2009.1402.20.

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