Theology: God as Non-Being

For contemporary theologians, God is a dimming concept. Assorted Anglican bishops pull him back from "out there" in space and redefine God as ground of being. Some Protestant "Christian atheists" stand ready to write his obituary. Catholics and Protestants alike admit that the traditional proofs for God's existence can be satisfactorily disproved, and earnestly strive for new ways to define and explain his presence.

To Leslie Dewart, a Roman Catholic philosopher who was born in Spain and now teaches at St. Michael's College of the University of Toronto, the trouble is not so much with God as with the language used...

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