ABSTRACT
Pamela Sue Anderson describes how reflection has undermined the plausibility of a perfectly free, perfectly good, perfectly omniscient, male God. She focuses on God as an action-guiding concept that can help us make ethical sense of things. Reflection leads us to reject the all-knowing, all-good, all-powerful “He” God and reflect anew. In general, when we try to make sense of anything, we find it necessary to reflect. Reflection in contemporary times, Anderson holds, has led us to understand that bodies and gender matter, and that since this is the case, God cannot have a male body. In other words, reflection has killed the traditional, all-powerful, all-good, all-knowing “He” God. The death of this concept is appropriate, Anderson argues. Destruction is not necessarily bad – rejecting certain concepts can be liberating. Still, the death of the traditional concept of God is now an experience of which we must make sense. Anderson suggests that we accept God’s death and start anew, developing thick concepts of God for ourselves. Her recommendation? A form of rationalism or a concept grounded in nature.
