382. The conceptuality terminology of theistic religion includes distinctive concepts...

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The conceptuality/ terminology of theistic religion includes distinctive conceptsI terms of two Inain types: one type for the strictly ultimate reality that "God" is not the only, but only one "optional" way of re-presenting; and the other type for the realities-persons or things-that, in turn, re-present God (as strictly ultimate reality). Meister Eckhart's "deitas" is an example of the first type of concepti term, the New Testament, '\no;; "CO'U Beau," of the second.
Significantly, "deitas" is as "'God'-dependent" as '\no;; "CO'U B£ou." And the
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same is true, mutatis mutandis, of the l\1fayana Buddhist distinction between "dharmakaya-as-suchness" and "dharmakaya-as-compassion."
The task of the philosopher of religion, presumably, is to introduce a "novel verbal characterizatioI\ rationally coordinated," that is, as one could say in Hick's terms, "less upayic." I submit that "the whole," in the sense of "the one that is all," or "the one frOln, through, and to (or for) which are all things" is just the concepti term that is called for.
24 May 2009