Abstract
In Honest to God, John Robinson distinguished between the idea of the divine as a person and the idea of ultimate reality, or the ground of being, as personal. C. S. Lewis, commenting on this distinction, remarked that, since God is ultimate reality, a personal ultimate reality entails a personal God. This article attempts to defend Robinson's distinction against Lewis's criticism, making use of an influential, though controversial, philosophical theory ofthe self.
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