Portraits of God

<p> "God is love"--<I>1 John 4:8</I></p><p> 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.</p>