04170nam a2200397Ia 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019006001900036007001500055008004100070040001300111020003500124020003200159035002100191035001800212050002200230082001200252049000900264100002700273245008300300260005900383300003500442504005100477505280400528500004703332650002603379650001803405650002203423650001403445655002203459776016003481856008603641910001603727994001203743999001703755ocn642206036OCoLC20200709055253.0m        d        cr cnu---unuuu100617s2009    nju     sb    001 0 eng d  aN$TcN$T  a9781400830442 (electronic bk.)  a1400830443 (electronic bk.)  a(OCoLC)642206036  a321440b(N$T) 4aBL51b.J75 2009eb04a210222  aN$TA1 aJohnston, Mark,d1954-10aSaving Godh[electronic resource] :breligion after idolatry /cMark Johnston.  aPrinceton, N.J. :bPrinceton University Press,cc2009.  a1 online resource (ix, 198 p.)  aIncludes bibliographical references and index.0 aIs your God really God? -- Believing in God -- On the "names" of God -- The meaning of "God" and the common conception of God -- What is salvation? -- Salvation versus spiritual materialism -- The idolatrous religions -- The ban on idolatry -- Idolatry as perverse worship -- Graven images and the highest one -- Idolatry as servility -- The rhetoric of idolatrousness -- The same God -- The Pharisees' problem with Jesus -- Could we be idolaters? -- Supernaturalism and scientism -- Scientism and superstition -- Supernaturalism -- Legitimate naturalism -- Scientism versus science -- The argument for naturalism from true religion -- The phenomenological approach -- The method and the question -- Yahweh's use of the method -- A criterion, or an enclosed circle? -- Yahweh's criterion applied to himself -- Forgiving the God -- A reply to Yahweh's answer to Job -- Is there an internal criterion of religious falsehood? -- The pope's criterion of religious falsehood -- A consequence of the pope's criterion -- Religious and scientific fallibilism -- Why God? -- Doesn't substantive reasonableness suffice? -- The fall -- Homo incurvatus in se -- The redeemer? -- After monotheism -- The highest one -- The tetragrammaton -- The paradox of the highest one -- Speaking of the highest one -- Existents as dependent aspects of existence itself -- An alternative to the thomistic interpretation of the highest one -- Process panentheism -- The goodness of the highest one -- The analogy of logos -- Process panentheism -- The self-disclosure of existence itself -- The problem is with the pantheon -- Panentheism, not pantheism -- Distinguishing panentheism and pantheism -- Presence -- Presence as disclosure -- Is being almost entirely wasted? -- Ubiquitous presence -- Against natural representation -- Representation and "carrying information" -- Can causation account for aboutness? -- What could replace the representationalist tradition? -- A diagnosis of the representationalist's mistake -- A transformed picture of "consciousness" and reality -- Confirming the surprising hypothesis -- The mind of God -- The objectivity of the realm of sense -- How the structure of presence might impose evolutionary constraints -- Objective mind and the mind of the highest one -- The doubly donatory character of reality -- Does God exist? -- The highest one -- Christianity without spiritual materialism -- Religion and violence -- The Gospel according to Girard -- Where is original sinfulness? -- Original sinfulness as self-will and false righteousness -- Christ destroys the kingdom of self-will and false righteousness -- The afterlife as an idolatrous conceit -- Against "man's quest for meaning" -- The afterlife as resistance to Christ -- Naturalism's gift : resurrection without the afterlife.  aDescription based on print version record. 0aReligionxPhilosophy. 0aSupernatural. 0aNatural theology. 0aIdolatry. 4aElectronic books.08iPrint version:aJohnston, Mark, 1954-tSaving God.dPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2009z9780691143941w(DLC)  2009012482w(OCoLC)318057806403NetLibraryuhttp://www.netLibrary.com/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=321440  acpp1723AUTO  a02bN$T  c49852d49852