Tradition
God in Christianity
Overview
Christian conception of God
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Hence the Jews and the Turks have not been able to represent their God, who does not even amount to such an abstraction of the understanding, in the positive way in which Christians have done so. For God in Christianity is conceived in His truth, and therefore, as in Himself thoroughly concrete, as a person, as a subject,[133] and more closely determined, as mind or spirit. What He is as spirit unfolds itself to the…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Introduction to Hegel's Philosophy of Fine Arts Translated from the German with Notes and Prefatory Essay
States what God in Christianity is; names God in Christianity.
The Christian concept of God—God as the deity of the sick, God as a spider, God as spirit—is one of the most corrupt concepts of God that has ever been attained on earth. Maybe it represents the low-water mark in the evolutionary ebb of the godlike type God degenerated into the _contradiction of life,_ instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yea!
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Twilight of the Idols
Close in meaning to God in Christianity; the term itself is not named.
A criticism of the _Christian concept of God_ leads inevitably to the same conclusion.--A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god. In him it does honour to the conditions which enable it to survive, to its virtues--it projects its joy in itself, its feeling of power, into a being to whom one may offer thanks.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, The Antichrist
Close in meaning to God in Christianity; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed God in Christianity
- Antony Flew
- William Godwin
- Nicolas Malebranche
- Thomas Aquinas
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Baruch Spinoza
- Bertrand Russell
Related ideas
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Analogy
- Jesus
- Fresco
- Greece
- Anglicanism
- Gnosticism
- Gospel
- Hinduism
- Abrahamic religions
- Abraham
- Ancient Greek
- Justin Martyr
- Transcendence (philosophy)
- Byzantine Empire
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Creatio ex nihilo
- Christians
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Pneuma
- Doctrine
- Monotheism
- Muslims
- Messiah
Place in the tradition
Part of Aesthetics.