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God has a troublesome history in human perception. Sometimes He pervades all of our reality. God is Reality. He professes relief from our finite existence. We are born with a striving towards perfection, or God. Bonaventura, the theologian of the Western High Medieval Age, integrating Greek philosophy and Christianity, called his main work Itinerarium Mentis in Deum.
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Fløistad, G. (2010). Introduction. In: Fløistad, G. (eds) Philosophy of Religion. Contemporary Philosophy: A New Survey, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3527-1_1
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