Although I’ve been temperamentally religious all my life, my philosophy of
religion turned critical with the publication of Taking Leave of God. I argued
that we should regard God not as a metaphysical being, an infinite spirit, but
rather as a guiding spiritual ideal by which to orient one’s life. This idea of
God was explicitly put forward by Kant, and arguably has always been present in
the Lutheran tradition. The older realistic understanding of and language
about God leads to impossible intellectual difficulties. How can a person be
infinite, timeless, simple, and immutable? It seems to be essential to most
Christians’ idea of God that God should somehow be thought of as personal, as
having dealings with us, but the philosophical attributes of God make that
unthinkable. To me it makes more sense to see God as a spiritual ideal. And
perhaps the best way to interpret Christianity is to say that Christians see in
Christ that ideal embodied in a human life. So I demythologize the idea of an
incarnation of God in Christ into the idea of embodiment of Christian values in
Christ, in his teaching. I see Christianity as a spiritual path in which one
pursues various values, tells certain stories, follows examples that in the end
go back chiefly to Jesus of Nazareth

Dan Culpitt
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