The envisioned volume is a collection of recent essays about the philosophical exploration, critique and comparison of (a) the major philosophical models of God, gods and other ultimate realities implicit in the world’s philosophical schools and religions, and of (b) the ideas of such models and doing such modeling per se. The aim is to identify exactly what a model of ultimate reality is; create a comprehensive and accessible collection of extant models; and determine how best, philosophically, to model ultimate reality, if possible and desirable.

Forewords.- Introduction.- A. Conceptual Foundations.- 1. What is a model of ultimate reality?.- 2. Meta-theoretical questions about models of ultimate reality.- B. Specific Models of Ultimate Reality.- Overview of specific models; Ted Peters, James E. Taylor.- 1. Classical and neo-classical theism.- 2. Pantheism.- 3. Process theology.- 4. Open theism.- 5. Panentheism.- 6. Deism.- 7. Ground of being theology.- 8. Religious naturalism/naturalistic theism.- 9. Dualism.- 10. Polytheism.- 11. Communotheism.- 12. Via Negativa/apophatic tradition (against all models).- 13. Skeptical or non-theistic views.- C. Diversity of Models of Ultimate Reality.- D. Practical Impacts of Models of Ultimate Reality.- References.- Index.