http://ndpr.nd.edu/review.cfm?id=17726Saving God is a rich and provocative book. It aims to "save God" from idolatrous believers, who take God to be largely concerned with the welfare and destiny of human creatures. Banning idolatry, Johnston is led to a
panentheistic conception of "the
Highest One," who (or which) is
not separable from Nature. With echoes of Spinoza and, to a lesser extent, Whitehead, Johnston takes
Supernaturalism to be spiritually irrelevant, as well as
idolatrous. ...
...Johnston's idea of the
root of idolatry: we are so self-centered that we suppose that the Highest One is focused on us. ...
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