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That God is to be thought of as ‘a person’ is commonly assumed both by believers and unbelievers. The view may not be as crudely literal as, in John Stuart Mill’s words, ‘a magnified non-natural man’; nevertheless some model of a person is presumed to be present in the great monotheistic religions: Christianity, Judaism and Islam. Yet this has not been the model in all serious forms of philosophical theism in the Christian tradition nor indeed, I believe, in Judaism and Islam.
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C.C.J. Webb, God and Personality (London, 1919). For the Socinian controversy, see p. 62.
P.F. Strawson, Individuals (London, 1959). See especially Chapter 3.
D. Parfit, Reasons and Persons (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1984).
Anthony Kenny, The God of the Philosophers (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979).
See, for instance, H. Putnam, Reason, Truth and History, (Cambridge University Press, 1981).
Thomas Nagel, The View from Nowhere (New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1989).
Helen Oppenheimer, Incarnation and Immanence (London, 1973), p. 34.
Thomas Nagel, Mortal Questions (Cambridge University Press, 1979), p. 165.
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Emmet, D. (1998). The Greater Haunting: a Personal God?. In: Outward Forms, Inner Springs. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-26672-2_7
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