If God is not a person, what sense does it make to worship ‘it’? The problem of worship takes on a new aspect in the light of models of God which have recently been promulgated by certain philosophers and theologians – that God is ‘Being itself’, ‘the ground of our being’, ‘experienced non-objective reality’, an inspiring picture, a fictional entity in a religious story, a linguistic device for indicating the fundamentality of our perspective on life or ‘the self not yet become’.
Outlines John Bradshaw's understanding of the roots of addition, summarizes several traditional images of God, and notes their limitations relative to recovery programs. Suggests necessary criteria for a model of God which would serve well the recovery process and finds the fulfillment of the criteria via process theology when wedded to feminist theology.
