Any number of theist philosophers have given arguments of the form “everyone, whether he knows it or not, when he addresses X, is addressing God”. Buber claimed the X was “a thou who could only be thou” (or something like this); Frankl and Newman claim that the X is the authoritative voice of conscience (or of life setting a question to us) Tillich saw God as the “ultimate concern” etc. We don’t necessarily have to see this as different from any other account of the “God of the philosophers”. Thomists, for example, can recast the five ways as saying that “everyone, whether he knows it or not, when he looks at a motion (or efficient causality, necessity, good, etc.) is seeing God processing externally from his nature.”
