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Personal and non-personal worship

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Date
26/03/2020
Author
Cockayne, Joshua
Keywords
Worship
Pantheism
Personal
Non-personal
BL Religion
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Abstract
Is it possible to worship a non-personal God? According to some, the answer is no: worship necessarily involves addressing the object of one’s worship. Since non-personal gods cannot acknowledge or respond to address, it must be conceptually inappropriate to worship such gods. I object to this argument on two fronts. First, I show that the concept of worship used is too narrow, excluding many cases that obviously count as instances of worship. And, secondly, drawing on recent work on the philosophy of object knowledge, I argue that addressing non-personal gods might not be as conceptually confused as it first appears. Thus, it at least possible to worship a non-personal God.
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Cockayne , J 2020 , ' Personal and non-personal worship ' , European Journal for Philosophy of Religion , vol. 12 , no. 1 , pp. 1-20 . https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v12i1.2711
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European Journal for Philosophy of Religion
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Peer reviewed
DOI
https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v12i1.2711
ISSN
1689-8311
Type
Journal article
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Copyright © 2020 European Journal for Philosophy of Religion. . This work has been made available online in accordance with publisher policies or with permission. Permission for further reuse of this content should be sought from the publisher or the rights holder. This is the author created accepted manuscript following peer review and may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v12i1.2711
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/19749

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