GOD-centric :

A life centered on the pursuit of a good and fair God of love

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Ch. 5 The Quest (continued)

Philosophy of Religion

  If you are going to have a crisis of faith, a Catholic liberal arts college is the place to do it. You won't feel strangely God-obsessed when you walk past a monastery and basilica and hear monks chant vespers every day. I do not recall taking a course entitled “Philosophy of Religion” but talk of God entered nearly every course in philosophy, psychology, and sociology. Philosophy courses remained firmly rooted in the old-school realms of metaphysics and ethics with nary an analytical philosophy of language offering in sight. The big questions loomed large so I was right at home. In preparing to compose this section, I found six front-and-back pages of handwritten notes on the nature of God that I had compiled during my college days to record a synopsis of the thoughts of philosophers from the Early Greeks to the 19th Century. Recognizing that the world did not end in 1900 C.E., I took up in private reading where my education left off. In summation of all that exploration, I think it is important to note that very intelligent and earnest people have come to different conclusions about the existence and nature of God. I recommend to you visiting the philosophy of religion but I would not want to live there. In my revisiting, I was reminded of my notes from the Ignatian Spirituality session: Spirituality is the lived encounter or existential experience of God, not your idea of God. To know God is not to know about God.

Arguments for God’s Existence

Qualities of God

Wagers: Aurelius vs. Pascal

Faith & Reason

The Problem of Evil

Process Theology & Theistic Existentialism