@inbook{3f7e729e6b834544854cc955b552b4b7,
title = "The Riddling God",
abstract = "Much philosophy of religion tries to prove or disprove the existence of God. The arguments typically proceed without attention to religious practices and attitudes. Someone to whom religion is an utter mystery could in principle follow the arguments and be convinced. Inspired by a paper of Cora Diamond{\textquoteright}s (Diamond 1991), I examine the ontological argument (OA) and contend (1) that if crucial words like {\textquoteleft}God{\textquoteright} and {\textquoteleft}great{\textquoteright} are not given a religious, Godly, understanding from the outset (from attention to the religious context of their use) they are, by default, given a {\textquoteleft}worldly{\textquoteright} understanding hostile to real faith, and (2) that while the OA fails as a proof, it contains a penetrating insight into the relationship between religious understanding and religious belief. I offer my argument as an instance of Diamond{\textquoteright}s {\textquoteleft}realistic spirit{\textquoteright} in philosophy.",
author = "Andrew Gleeson",
year = "2019",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.4324/9781351064309-8",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781138479968",
series = "Routledge Studies in Ethics and Moral Theory",
publisher = "Routledge, Taylor & Francis",
pages = "132--145",
editor = "Gleeson, {Andrew } and Craig Taylor",
booktitle = "Morality in a Realistic Spirit",
address = "United Kingdom",
edition = "1st",
}