… Review - Roger Scruton, The Face of God (Matthew O'Brien) - Academia.edu. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
What does it mean to say that God is the reason for existence but not its cause? Itmeans that “God” has been redefined to make his presence compatible with a scientistic picture of the world as a causally-closed sequence of events. This allows us to speak about events as God’s will, without “describing it as a miraculous intervention, and wecan accept Hume’s skepticism about miracles, while acknowledging God’s presence asan agent in space in time.” Scruton thinks that here lies the importance of the first-person perspective. For it is the first-person plural, i.e., community, “that enables us to bridgethe gap opened by the [metaphysical] arguments of the philosophers, and to find thetranscendental God that is allegedly proved by those arguments as a real presence in theworld.
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