Portraits of God: Word Pictures of the Deity from the Earliest Times Through Today

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated–Voltaire.
God is love –1 John 4:8 Portraits of God painted with words have ranged from prehistoric conceptions of the Earth Mother to more elaborate sophisticated visions: God as craftsman, a multiple deity, an illusion, one’s highest self, the Omega point…. This book presents sixty-some selections, including many fascinating exchanges in the 16th-19th centuries that constitute the main body of modern Western philosophy, religious or otherwise.