ABSTRACT
John Bishop says explicitly that he thinks there is a successful argument from evil against the existence of a personal 'omniGod' – a personal being with at least the attributes of omnipotence, omniscience and omnibenevolence. Kevin Hart maintains that the quest to make God present in experience leads to vice, and that Christianity eschews this quest and denies that God 'gives himself directly'. Toward the beginning of her section on the nature of God, Heather Eaton lays out her primary methodological values. She begins by locating herself at the "margins" of the Christian tradition. More pertinently, however, she distances herself from just about every doctrine that one might sensibly take as definitive of Christianity. Many people think that being a Christian is just a matter of 'following Christ' in some sense; and simply admiring Jesus' view on life seems to be one way of 'following Christ' without doing so religiously.
