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Star Wars God and Metaphysics
Star Wars God and Metaphysics
Star Wars God and Metaphysics
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Not long after the Star Wars movie first came out, I went to Sunday Mass in the
very conservative Catholic Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska. At Mass, the subject of the
homily by the priest was the notion of The Force, in Star Wars. The priest basically
argued that The Force was God. Others have argued that the Star Wars Universe is a
In this essay, I would like to explore the idea that the parish priest brought up, that
is, that The Force is God. Previously I have argued that The Trinity of God unfolds as
In trying to integrate the forgoing formulation with the Star Wars theological point of
In addition to accommodating the notion of the Force, this new formulation argues that is
is somewhat redundant to have both Being and Logos as attributes of God when they
both involve intellection of some sort. The argument is that it makes more sense to place
Power or Force as the primary attribute of God the Father, not Being.