personal god

English

Alternative forms

• personal God

Noun

personal god (plural personal gods)

1. A deity who can be related to or thought of as a person, through an anthropomorphized persona, rather than an impersonal, and faceless, force of nature.

   Coordinate term: personal goddess

   Albert Einstein was not an atheist, but did not believe in a personal god.

See also

• agnosticism
• atheism
• deism
• deity
• God
• god
• panentheism
• pantheism
• polytheism
• theism

 

References

Oxford Dictionary of English