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God the Known and God the Unknown

Samuel Butler

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Published2001

Words16,399

LanguageEnglish

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Samuel Butler examines two conceptions of the divine: a "known" God identified with the collective life of all living things, and an "unknown" God lying beyond it. This philosophical essay suits readers interested in Victorian theology, pantheism, and religion's relation to evolutionary thought.

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler (1835–1902) was an English author of the Victorian era, best known for the satirical utopian novel *Erewhon* and the semi-autobiographical novel *The Way of All Flesh*. He also wrote critical works challenging Darwinian evolution and translated Homer's *Iliad* and *Odyssey* into prose.

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