Leslie Stevenson is Honorary Reader in Philosophy and Honorary Quaker Chaplain at St. Andrews University in Scotland, where he taught from 1968 to 2000. He is co-author of Thirteen Theories of Human Nature (Oxford University Press, 2017). and author of Inspirations from Kant (Oxford University Press, 2011), Open to New Light: An Introduction to Quaker Spirituality in Historical and Philosophical Context (Imprint Academic, 2012), The Many Faces of Science (Westview Press, 2000), and The Study of Human Nature (Oxford University Press, 1999).

Philosopher Leslie Stevenson offers a concise, lucid and irenic survey of approaches to the question of God. What does it mean to call God a person, or to say that God is simple? Does God exist independently of us? When believers say that God created the world, are they referring to an initiatory act or to an ongoing relationship to God which sustains the world at every moment? Stevenson is especially sensitive to both the power and the limitations of interpreting theology in metaphorical terms. Ranging widely, Stevenson occasionally misfires—he doesn't seem to grasp that Maimonides's version of negative theology, for example, is far more radical than that of Aquinas. But this is, on the whole, a beautiful little book overflowing with ideas for reflection and contemplation.

• Part I: Concepts1. The Old Man in the Sky2. The Omnipresent Person3. The Unchangeable Necessary Being4. Negative (Apophatic) Theology5. Truth, Goodness, and Beauty6. Pantheism7. Deism8. The God Who Changes and Acts Part II: Words9. Instrumentalism10. Reductionism11. Postmodernism12. Relativism13. Wittgensteinian Christianity Part III: Experiences14. Religious Experience 15. The Eternal Thou16. Moral Faith17. Forgiveness and Grace18. The Inward Light

Leslie Stevenson is Honorary Reader in Philosophy and Honorary Quaker Chaplain at St. Andrews University in Scotland, where he taught from 1968 to 2000. He is co-author of Thirteen Theories of Human Nature (Oxford University Press, 2017). and author of Inspirations from Kant (Oxford University Press, 2011), Open to New Light: An Introduction to Quaker Spirituality in Historical and Philosophical Context (Imprint Academic, 2012), The Many Faces of Science (Westview Press, 2000), and The Study of Human Nature (Oxford University Press, 1999).

Philosopher Leslie Stevenson offers a concise, lucid and irenic survey of approaches to the question of God. What does it mean to call God a person, or to say that God is simple? Does God exist independently of us? When believers say that God created the world, are they referring to an initiatory act or to an ongoing relationship to God which sustains the world at every moment? Stevenson is especially sensitive to both the power and the limitations of interpreting theology in metaphorical terms. Ranging widely, Stevenson occasionally misfires—he doesn't seem to grasp that Maimonides's version of negative theology, for example, is far more radical than that of Aquinas. But this is, on the whole, a beautiful little book overflowing with ideas for reflection and contemplation.

• Part I: Concepts1. The Old Man in the Sky2. The Omnipresent Person3. The Unchangeable Necessary Being4. Negative (Apophatic) Theology5. Truth, Goodness, and Beauty6. Pantheism7. Deism8. The God Who Changes and Acts Part II: Words9. Instrumentalism10. Reductionism11. Postmodernism12. Relativism13. Wittgensteinian Christianity Part III: Experiences14. Religious Experience 15. The Eternal Thou16. Moral Faith17. Forgiveness and Grace18. The Inward Light