Uduma, Oji Uduma and Anacletus, I. Ogbunkwu (2019) GOD AS “NOTHING”:AMETAPHYSICAL RECIPE AGAINST ANTHROPOMORPHISM. LOGOS:AFRICANJOURNALOFPHILOSOPHYANDSTUDIES, 1. pp. 1-15. ISSN 2736-008
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This paper aims at explicating the right perspective towards understanding God. Minding the inexplicable nature of God and the ambiguity of human language, this paper opines that God is best described as “nothing” while nothing here does not mean non-existent but indescribable. Using the method of hermeneutics, the paper studies the dynamism of religious anthropomorphism in the quest towards understanding God. In the attempt to actualize the already stated aim, the paper studies the tenets of anthropomorphism, concept of “nothing” in philosophy and how the concept of “nothing” is a better choice than the anthropological language definitions of God as prevalent especially during the scholastic era of philosophy. Our finding reveals that the different anthropological definitions of God demeans the person of God, creates ambiguity in religion and impoverishes human understanding of God which in most cases is the cause of atheism. On appraisal, the paper philosophically assesses the concept of “nothing” as the better definition in understanding God. Hence by “nothing” the person of God is not demeaned, instead He is put in the right perspective as a divine being in whose being cannot be anthropologically understood. Therefore, the implication of the study shows that “nothing” is a better definition of God than all anthropological definitions which are unable to integrate the fullness and perfection of/in God.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BR Christianity |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Faculty of Law > Faculty of Management and Social Sciences |
| Depositing User: | mrs chioma hannah |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jun 2026 15:52 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jun 2026 15:52 |
| URI: | http://eprints.gouni.edu.ng/id/eprint/5783 |
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