{"title":"The Significance of Spinoza’s God for Christianity","authors":"Henri Laux S.J.","doi":"10.21731/ctat.2019.83.87","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Spinoza’s philosophy represents a major turning-point in the history of thinking about God.12 But what sort of God was Spinoza putting forward? Why has Spinoza’s idea of God provoked so many debates and contradictory reactions over the centuries? Is his conception simply a negation of the God of Christian revelation? Or does it have something to say to Christian theology? The answer is complex; it requires first of all a clear understanding of Spinoza's position. Spinoza (1632-1677) was born in Amsterdam, amongst the com-","PeriodicalId":370969,"journal":{"name":"The Society of Theology and Thought","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2019-07-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"The Society of Theology and Thought","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.21731/ctat.2019.83.87","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Spinoza’s philosophy represents a major turning-point in the history of thinking about God.12 But what sort of God was Spinoza putting forward? Why has Spinoza’s idea of God provoked so many debates and contradictory reactions over the centuries? Is his conception simply a negation of the God of Christian revelation? Or does it have something to say to Christian theology? The answer is complex; it requires first of all a clear understanding of Spinoza's position. Spinoza (1632-1677) was born in Amsterdam, amongst the com-