Philosophy of Religion Notes

Onto-theology worries that metaphysics, as it has often been practised, appears to turn God into a solution to a problem generated by human reason itself. God is introduced to close explanatory gaps, to satisfy the principle of sufficient reason, to stabilise a picture of the world that reason already wants to have. In that role God becomes an object within a system, even if the highest object, and therefore worshipping such a God becomes vulnerable to the charge of idolatry.