Il Dio in comune del teismo

ABSTRACT. In this essay I argue that the topic «God in common» is significant when it results from the combination of a religious and a philosophical conception of God. I support this thesis in three steps. Firstly, I argue that God’s commonality does not emerge from the history of religions that shows only forms of religious syncretism which are ineffective to put God in common. Therefore, we can speak of a «God in common» in the religious sphere only with reference to the wide sharing of a specific religious concept of God. In this view, the most shared religions are Western monotheisms, that is universalistic religions. Secondly, I argue that such claim to universality emerges when the religious conception of God is combined with the philosophical one. In Western monotheisms, especially Christianity, this has been made possible through the formation of a theistic concept of God. Finally, I defend the latter against some objections, in particular against the objection that theism would be an «ontotheology and, as such, it would be exposed to the suspicion of idolatry.