This chapter deals with the various conceptions of GodGod and/or of godsgods and images of Godimage of God. What attributes can be ascribed to him/them? Is there a personal God—or are we dealing with impersonal energy(ies) and forces? How can one recognize him/them? Are there proofs of Godproof of God—and what do they look like? Or is all this just “religious humbug”? Is God merely a “product of thought” and “wishful thinking” or is God—as Nietzsche writes—long dead and religion “opium for the people” (Marx)? It is not so long ago that a large part of people had time to think about themselves and the meaning of their lives and to consider who they are, what their soul is and what they are here for. It also deals with what the world is, what the cosmos is—and what God is. In earlier times, these questions were rather left to the priests or philosophers (in other cultures to the shamansshaman, gurus or mullahs) and their power to define was trusted and their perspectives were only too gladly adopted.

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A Power Greater than Ourselves: Conceptions of God

  • Werner Gross

摘要

This chapter deals with the various conceptions of GodGod and/or of godsgods and images of Godimage of God. What attributes can be ascribed to him/them? Is there a personal God—or are we dealing with impersonal energy(ies) and forces? How can one recognize him/them? Are there proofs of Godproof of God—and what do they look like? Or is all this just “religious humbug”? Is God merely a “product of thought” and “wishful thinking” or is God—as Nietzsche writes—long dead and religion “opium for the people” (Marx)? It is not so long ago that a large part of people had time to think about themselves and the meaning of their lives and to consider who they are, what their soul is and what they are here for. It also deals with what the world is, what the cosmos is—and what God is. In earlier times, these questions were rather left to the priests or philosophers (in other cultures to the shamansshaman, gurus or mullahs) and their power to define was trusted and their perspectives were only too gladly adopted.