Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principle or belief that all things are contained in God.
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- noun philosophy, religion A
doctrine that theuniverse is part ofGod , but that God nevertheless transcends or has some existence separate from the universe. - noun rare A
belief in allgods .
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Examples
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I prefer the term panentheism but it is admittedly a fine line.
Atheists and Pantheists and Panentheists - Oh My! James F. McGrath 2010
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Scholars of great mystical movements and figures often go out of their way to explain that their subjects merit the term panentheism rather than pantheism, as if the second label is an insult.
Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist): Metaphysics, Totalization, and the Cosmos By Jonathan Weidenbaum William Harryman 2009
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The term panentheism refers to God as existing within but somehow grander than creation (i.e. the whole is greater than the sum of its parts).
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If you get seriously interested in panentheism, I recommend Charles Hartshorne's "Omnipotence and Other Theological Mistakes."
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One of the favorite metaphors of panentheism is that "the world is God's body".
Critique of MDT 2005
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The philosophical position known as panentheism or, all things within God, is employed to highlight the workings of mind and spirit.
Darren Iammarino - The Emergence of God William Harryman 2009
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Had every professing pantheist in history been exposed to the idea of panentheism, perhaps each would immediately exclaim: “Yes, yes…I am that.”
Why I am Not a Pantheist (Nor a Panentheist): Metaphysics, Totalization, and the Cosmos By Jonathan Weidenbaum William Harryman 2009
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But the broader stream of thought known as panentheism, of which process thought probably deserves to be considered a subcategory, is one that resonates with me in many ways.
Debunking Debunking Christianity Christianity James F. McGrath 2009
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He never seems to address things like panentheism, which is clearly different from classical theism, but isn't it still, in some sense, a theism?
What is an Atheist? James F. McGrath 2008
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On the other hand, in the context of views such as panentheism, which envision God as embodied in the universe and the universe as existing "within" God, it makes much more sense to work with analogies from human persons to the divine.
Archive 2009-09-01 James F. McGrath 2009
palooka commented on the word panentheism
"The belief that the Being of God includes and penetrates the whole univers, so that every part of it exists in him, but (as against Pantheism...) that His Being is more than, and is not exhausted by, the universe." per http://www.stsams.org/dictionary.html
January 28, 2007
oroboros commented on the word panentheism
See also: hylopathism and hylozoism.
November 18, 2007