Metz, Thaddeus2023-03-152021Thaddeus Metz (2021) The meanings of God: reply to four critics, International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, 82:4-5, 366-374, DOI: 10.1080/21692327.2021.2020151.2169-2327 (print)2169-2335 (online)10.1080/21692327.2021.2020151https://repository.up.ac.za/handle/2263/90113In this article, I briefly reply to four critics who have critically engaged with my book God, Soul and the Meaning of Life in a special issue of the International Journal of Philosophy and Theology. I view them mainly as addressing the ‘meaning’ of God in three distinct senses, namely, in terms of how best to understand the word ‘God’ and related terms such as ‘the spiritual’, whether God is central to what gives our lives a particular sort of final value, and how beliefs about God might be central to interpreting what on the face of it are non-religious beliefs and practices in contemporary Western society. My remarks are intended to continue the dialogue about these definitional, axiological, and hermeneutic meanings of God.en© 2022 International Journal of Philosophy and Theology. This is an electronic version of an article published in International Journal of Philosophy and Theology, vol. 82, no. 4-5, pp. 366-374, 2022. doi : 10.1080/21692327.2021.2020151. International Journal of Philosophy and Theology is available online at http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rjpt20.GodMeaning of lifeNaturalismSoulSpiritualityTheismPostprint Article