ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the concept of God. Among the naturalists who continue to talk about God, there are a variety of positions, although they seem, to boil down to two main options. Some of these positions describe God as the totality of the universe considered religiously. Others depict God as the creative process within the universe. Thus, there tend to be two types of naturalistic theists. Among those who think of God as the totality of the universe considered religiously are a group of thinkers not as well known today, including the philosopher Samuel Alexander, and the theologians George Burman Foster, Edward Scribner Ames, Frederick May Eliot, William Bernhardt, the later Bernard Loomer, and Michael Dowd. Edward Scribner Ames thought that the idea of God should be revised, just as one often revise the idea of mind. Another theologian, Bernard Loomer, toward the end of his life identified God with the "concrete, interconnected totality of the world as a whole".
