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Coetsier, Meins. ""God, the Creative Ground of Existence" in Voegelin, Etty Hillesum and Martin Buber: A Response to Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA 2008 Annual Meeting, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts, Aug 28, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p281325_index.html>

Coetsier, M. G. , 2008-08-28 ""God, the Creative Ground of Existence" in Voegelin, Etty Hillesum and Martin Buber: A Response to Richard Dawkins' The God Delusion" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the APSA 2008 Annual Meeting, Hynes Convention Center, Boston, Massachusetts Online <APPLICATION/PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p281325_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: �God� is said. �God� is argued. �God� is lost. The anti-religion war is now in full swing with a surprisingly intolerant book, full of scorn for religion and those who believe. Richard Dawkins� 2006 published and controversial book The God Delusion contends that a supernatural creator almost certainly does not exist. Belief in a god qualifies as a delusion and faith in �God� is a persistent false belief held in the face of strong contradictory evidence. Dawkins is hostile to all religions, in particular to fundamentalist Christianity and Islam. After the atrocities of 9/11 and in light of recent intellectual debates on religion, as in Dawkins� The God Delusion, one of the main post-modern tribulations to be dealt with is the unrest emerging from the �God confusion.� The variety of personal experiences, understanding and symbolizations of divine reality in the contemporary world � or the lack of it - has created a world-wide religious tension. We are not only facing global theoretical clashes concerning the God question between various groups, but will have to face up to the huge practical implications, especially with implementing laws and degrees on a political level. There is a hunger for alternative perspectives, for analyzes that challenge supposedly universally accepted propositions. This paper provides such a perspective starting from the experiential openness to the divine in Voegelin, Etty Hillesum and Martin Buber, attempting to unveil the divine-human movements of the soul. According to Buber, the present crisis of deformed existence has entangled the human heart in an estrangement from God and human beings. In Buber�s view, at the heart of all genuine religiosity we have lost the opening up of everyday reality to dialogic relations with an eternal, absolute Presence or �Thou.� Voegelin is calling for a radical conversion to transcendent order. The Dutch mystic Etty Hillesum in her Letters and Diaries experiences God as the creative ground of existence, a timeless presence or �You� encountered within her �center� in the flow of life. The deepest reason for meeting this presence, according to these three thinkers, does not lie in the weakness of our irrationality but in the possibility of recovering a spiritual understanding of what gives meaning to our lives. Our personal reorientation to the divine is the first step to bring an elementary recognition of transcendent reality to our whole civilization. This paper is such an appeal to resist forgetfulness of God.

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