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shall see, dualism attempts to answer the charge by insisting that
God is without limits even while trying to preserve some sense of
God's otherness from the world with which God is in some kind
of primordial as well as ongoing relation. Pluralism attempts to
answer the charge by observing that even dualism ultimately falls
into some of the monist's logic, thereby qualifying in a seriously
damaging way what it wants to say about God as a being in rela-
tion to the world. Pluralism, in the mode of conceiving God as a
personal Agent, then goes on to argue that only if God is in literal
relationship with other beings can God be together bound with them
and be the agent of their creation, redemption, and renewal.


Notes
1. Grace Jantzen, "'Where Two Are to Become One': Mysticism and
Monism," in Godfrey Vesey, ed., The Philosophy in Christianity, Royal
Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series no. 25, supplement to Philosophy,
1989 ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 147-66.
2. Jantzen even suggests that the 'pervasive self-deception' of so many
interpreters of mysticism as monism in Christianity may well be due to
their desire to utilize the sexual imagery of much mystical literature in
order to devalue the feminine. Because they read the sexual imagery as a
symbol for the complete loss of the soul in God, and the feminine as a
symbol for the soul, this reading reinforces the notion that maleness ul-
timately triumphs over the feminine by annihilating it.
3. Walter T. Stace, "Subjectivity, Objectivity and the Self," in Jacob Needleman
, A. K. Bierman, and James A. Gould, eds., Religion for a New
Generation ( New York: Macmillan, 1977), p. 414.
4. Ibid., p. 415.
5. Ibid., p. 419.
6. See especially Paul Tillich, "Being and God", and "The Reality of
God", in Systematic Theology ( Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951),
1:211-89; and The Courage to Be ( New Haven, Conn.: Yale University
Press, 1952), pp. 155-90.
7. Walter T. Stace, Time and Eternity ( Princeton: Princeton Univer-
sity Press, 1951), pp. 153-55.
8. Stace, "Subjectivity, Objectivity and the Seff," p. 420.
9. See especially William J. Wainwright, Mysticism: A Study of Its
Nature, Cognitive Value and Moral Implications ( Madison: University of
Wisconsin Press, 1981).

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