The Concept(s) of God

Abstract

“The Concept(s) of God” In this chapter, Lorkowski draws attention to just how difficult the concept of a deity would be. Though different conceptions entail different problems, the author’s primary focus is on difficulties inherent to the concept of virtually any creator deity. These include the absolute foreignness of the being that is posited, the dilemma created by positing an eternal person either temporally or atemporally, and the difficulties inherent to positing a god as a metaphysically necessary ultimate cause. Lastly, to both emphasize how problematic the concept is and as an introduction to the reader, Lorkowski includes an appendix of twenty worries regarding the impossibility of standard conceptions of a deity.