Beyond the Between: The Desmondian Metaxological Way to God

Authors: Savariarpitchai J*

DOI: 10.23880/phij-16000239

Volume 5, Issue 2

Abstract

We are living in an era that has a deep silence on the philosophy of God. One of the prominent reasons for the silence is the ‘beyond’ philosophies that kept God in an unreachable height and that resulted in the mere immanence. The ‘immanence’ philosophies have no place for God in their thinking. This article tries to revive the ‘beyond’ with the ‘between’ philosophy of William Desmond, with the help of his fourfold senses of God. The article analyses the determinate, the indeterminate and the self-determinate ways to God to arrive at the metaxological other-determinate way to God. The metaxological way indicates the beyond from the surplus overdeterminate reality of the between.

Keywords: God; Religion; Metaphysics; Equivocity

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