God as a theoretical object or about ontological status of god again

The article "God as a Theoretical Object, or About Ontological Status of God Again" consists of introduction, four general parts, and conclusion. In introduction author tells about her motivation. Then a situation in the middle of XXth century is described. A new strong interest to God's existence arising in 60s was based on the possible world semantics developed by Saul Kripke. Approaches developed by Norman Malcolm, Charles Hartshorne, and Alvin Plantinga are considered since they were extremely important for subsequent investigations. In the second part the general idea of multilevel possible world semantics is presented, where each level contains the only one sort of essences. The essences of the level can exist in weak of strong senses. Every level has to be arranged to others levels by principle of Coherence Dictum. The essences of different levels exist in different ways. The one level is special - its essences exist "really", in a genuine way. These are the states of affairs. God is not a state of affairs and not the object like a tree, a hill, or a human. God is described as a very specially object, kind of a property of "arranging the worlds", the law of construction the system of worlds itself. In the third part the author considers God as a theoretical object in methodological sense. Then author analyses the possibility of combining the methodological ideas of V.A. Smirnov with some semantic ideas of P. Tichy.

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