The ontological status of Yahweh and the existence of the thing we call God

dc.contributor.authorMokoena, Lerato Likopo Dinah
dc.date.accessioned2023-06-27T06:19:41Z
dc.date.available2023-06-27T06:19:41Z
dc.date.issued2022-12
dc.description.abstractThe essence of deities has captured our imaginations for as long as we can remember. Does a God exist, or is the divine entity just a figment of our dreams, a projection? Is God what Aribiah Attoe calls a “regressively eternal and material entity” or what Gericke calls “a character of fiction with no counterpart outside the worlds of text and imagination”? This paper aims to wrestle with those questions from a theological perspective and to look at the ontological status of Yahweh and how that worldview lends itself to African Traditional Religions in conversation with Attoe's method of inquiry from the perspective of African Metaphysics. This paper aims to be a part of the larger project undertaken by the author, showing that philosophy can and should be an auxiliary discipline in Old Testament Studies as it has been seen, both fields have ways of similar arguing and coming to the same conclusions. This paper is intended to be an interlocutory exercise or experiment and does not seek to validate any hypothesis about either view.en_US
dc.description.departmentOld Testament Studiesen_US
dc.description.librarianam2023en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipThe John Templeton Foundation and the Global Philosophy of Religion Project at the University of Birmingham.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://journals.co.za/journal/filosofiaen_US
dc.identifier.citationMokoena, L. 2022, 'The ontological status of Yahweh and the existence of the thing we call God', Filosofia Theoretica: Journal of African Philosophy, Culture and Religions, vol. 11, no. 4, pp. 141-150, doi : 10.4314/ft.v11i4.9s.en_US
dc.identifier.issn2276-8386 (print)
dc.identifier.issn2408-5987 (online)
dc.identifier.other10.4314/ft.v11i4.9s
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/91212
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherCalabar School of Philosophyen_US
dc.rights© Calabar School of Philosophy.en_US
dc.subjectYahwehen_US
dc.subjectGoden_US
dc.subjectExistenceen_US
dc.subjectPhilosophical criticismen_US
dc.subjectOld Testamenten_US
dc.subjectMetaphysicsen_US
dc.titleThe ontological status of Yahweh and the existence of the thing we call Goden_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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