Sensus Divinitatis Senses Property of the Divine Not the Person of God

" As such, Plantinga still seems to construe Calvin's sensus divinitatis as if it were a kind of natural knowledge of God, but with merely muffled and distorted deliverances (215). In fact, he suggests that 'perhaps in some people at some times, the sensus divinitatis doesn't work at all' (215). This indicates a misunderstanding of Calvin. What Calvin points to is a sensus divinitatis, not a sensus Dei. In other words, there is a structural human propensity to worship a divinity, not to have some knowledge of the Creator God. This is precisely why it could never not be operative; it is a structural propensity. If it is not directed toward the Triune Creator, it is misdirected toward an idol."

James K.A. Smith, Introducing Radical Orthodoxy, p. 180 note #107