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Case Studies | Peace and Conflict Studies | Indonesia | Volume 3 Issue 12, December 2014

Break The Searching Limits of God's Existence (A Study of the Debate About the Existence of God in Islamic Theology)

Ishak Abd. Aziz

Abstract: Humans were never able to stop the instinct and reason for thinking about God. Humans were never able to break away from the connecting with God in their life. Humans were so weak and vulnerable in encountered their own problems, so that they required the absolute support to maintain their existence immediately. Human relationship with God as the absolute support, traversed with their concept to imagine their God, so that the process of their relationship with God has a value and meaning which represented of their spiritual thirst. The one concept that often to debated among of theologians was the concept of God's nature and substance. This article discusses about the debating of God's nature in the tradition of Islamic theology. The debate in this article will present the two mainstreams of theological thought in the Islamic, that were Asy?ariyah and Mu'tazilah stream.

Keywords: Asyariyah, Mutazilah, Nature of God, Substance of God, Transcendent, immanent

Edition: Volume 3 Issue 12, December 2014,

Pages: 1193 - 1198