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It seems clear from this that what Hartshorne means by "the idea of God" is precisely the idea of "a love which sways and registers all existence." But, then, it is arguable that what "the idea of God" provides is not more, but rather less, intelligibility,   the idea of such a love being an unintelligible (because self-contradictory, incoherent) idea. This it is, at any rate, unless it is understood simply as a symbolic way of talking about "the inclusive reality," or "the universal individual."

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