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Philosophy, as we know it in the West, began in ancient Milesia. People asked the question of ultimate reality in this way: what is everything ultimately made of? Interestingly, after nearly 26 centuries of philosophy and theology, Cobb wants to ask the question in a similar way. With a slight refinement he asks: what is it that that of which all things are made (or at least all things without components) is a form? Cobb recognizes that there are other legitimate ways of asking the question of ultimate reality and other answers to the question than God. Cobb argues that his view of God possesses appropriate continuity with the use of the term in Scripture and in the Christian tradition and, in most respects, I agree.
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Davis, S.T. (1989). Comment on John Cobb. In: Tessier, L.J. (eds) Concepts of the Ultimate. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-20327-7_7
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