ABSTRACT
At the heart of a man’s worship is his vision of excellence. The traditional theist’s conception of God’s perfection does not differ significantly from that held by the monistic Absolutist, once allowance is made for the fact that the Absolutist does not grant creatio ex nihilo. The Absolutist – and Paul Tillich and Martin Buber are recent examples – struggles valiantly to save the individual from being absorbed in the Absolute, but, as I see it, fails.
