Dr Martin Pickup
Seminar
University of Birmingham
Event date
Wednesday 11 March 2026, 4pm to 5.30pm
Location
In-person and online
I/A/009 Department of Philosophy
I/A/009 Department of Philosophy
Audience
Open to staff, students
Admission
Free admission, booking not required
Event details
Where is God? Divine Presence and Location
Where is God? This is a question asked by philosophers, theologians, and 4-year-olds alike. Answers vary. One particularly well-attested answer is that God is everywhere: this is the doctrine of divine omnipresence and is shared by traditional forms of Judaism, Christianity and Islam (among other religions) under the banner of classical theism. But what does it mean to say God is present everywhere? This is my motivating question, and I will offer a new account of what it could be for God to be omnipresent which I take to be an improvement on the existing options. I do so by drawing on and contributing to work on the metaphysics of location in contemporary analytic philosophy.