"I do not know just how you define God," I managed at last through my astonishment to make answer.
Theism, as a way of defining God, is dead.
St. Anselm's approach was to define God as, "that than which nothing greater can be conceived".
The compilers of the catechism seemed to have no doubt that it was perfectly possible to define God and say precisely what he is.
I loved Sebes and learned a lot from him about how people the world over defined God, truth, and the good life.
Anselm defined God as "that than which nothing greater can be conceived", and then argued that this being could exist in the mind.
Judaism's focus is more on how God defines man than on trying to define God.
This new type of theology made no attempt to define God.
Kabbalah defines God as the force of giving in existence.
Anselm defined God as 'that than which nothing greater can be conceived'.