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Gastwirth's ‘Concepts of God’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Peter Slater
Peter Slater
Affiliation:
Associate Professor of Religion, Carleton University
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Paul Gastwirth seems to me generally correct concerning our concepts of God (Religious Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 1972, pp. 147–52). But there are at least two points at which he needs to take his analysis further if he is to help us to think through the topic. In the first place, he must do more than invoke the Wittgensteinian image of family resemblances if he is to exorcise the quest for defining characteristics. And, in the second place, he needs to consider in some detail the use of ‘God’ as a name.

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Research Article
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Religious Studies , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 1973 , pp. 233 - 235
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

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page 235 note 1 In this connection it would be interesting to see what Gastwirth makes of Dewart's, LeslieThe Future of Belief (Herder and Herder, New York, 1966).Google Scholar Any analysis of God-concepts must allow for the kind of identification yet reconception which Dewart is attempting with regard to the Catholic doctrines of God.