{"id":38217,"date":"2016-12-13T20:43:57","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T01:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=38217"},"modified":"2019-11-05T20:41:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-06T02:41:00","slug":"on-counting-gods-published-in-theologica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/on-counting-gods-published-in-theologica\/","title":{"rendered":"“On Counting Gods” published in TheoLogica"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>My paper “On Counting Gods<\/strong><\/a>” has just been published\u00a0by the new five-language philosophy of religion \/ philosophical theology \/ analytic theology journal TheoLogica<\/strong><\/em>. I would especially like to thank editors\u00a0Alejandro P\u00e9rez\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0and Jean-Baptiste Guillon<\/strong> for their help. I got a couple of very good, helpful referee reports from anonymous reviewers here – thanks to those folks, whoever they are.\u00a0I would also thank Carl Mosser<\/a>, whose work on this topic was helpful. You can view (and download) the papers in their first issue here<\/a><\/strong>. I’m also grateful for feedback from Bill Vallicella<\/a>, Andy Cullison<\/a>, and my colleagues Neil Feit<\/a> and Steve Kershnar<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"\"This paper is about understanding the concepts of monotheism, polytheism<\/del> (polydeism – see the paper), and atheism (and adeism). In my opinion, this is the most important philosophical work I’ve done, and I worked on it on and off for about five years. My aim is to clarify our thinking about competing religious worldviews. I argue that we need to replace\u00a0the trichotomy monotheism-polytheism-atheism<\/em><\/strong>, which I claim is confused and confusing.<\/p>\n

In short, the term “god ” is ambiguous<\/strong>; we must distinguish between concepts of a god, a (mere) deity, and an ultimate reality which is neither a god nor a deity. “Atheism” is best understood, as Cudworth and More thought, as denial of a god. Most atheists in the history of the world have believed in many deities. Present-day naturalists are adeists (no deities), which implies atheism.<\/p>\n

Next Monday on the podcast<\/strong>, you can hear a recent presentation of the core of this material which I recently presented to philosophy graduate students at Boston College, who contribute a lot of excellent questions and discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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