us today as a blank face.”4 Many, however, are prepared to acknowledge some transcendent “Being” above and beyond human life. A subpersonal being, on the other hand, who does not or cannot intervene in human affairs, matches the outlook of Deism, which we consider more fully below. At the other end of the spectrum stands the “All” of pantheism, which understands the presence and action of God to be diffused throughout all reality, and not focused in a particular “person.” This, too, we have yet to
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