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  • adjective Of or relating to panentheism.

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Examples

  • Because it fits well with consciousness, I think the author/story metaphor is a better one than the common "the world is God's body" that is often cited in panentheistic approaches.

    Alpha Centauri U., BioEvolution 7314 2005

  • Although accused of pantheism by their contemporaries, their systems can be identified as panentheistic because they understood God in various ways as including the world rather than being the world and because they used a dialectical method.

    Panentheism Culp, John 2009

  • You, for instance, have a tendency to capitalize 'Life,' as if in some kind of panentheistic sense of i+d.

    And Now For The Rest of the Story 2006

  • You, for instance, have a tendency to capitalize 'Life,' as if in some kind of panentheistic sense of i+d.

    And Now For The Rest of the Story 2006

  • Perhaps you would prefer to label it 'panentheistic'.

    Pantheism Levine, Michael 2007

  • The panentheistic God of the orthodox and/or the open theists?

    Alice In Wonderland official trailer 2009

  • It's not clear to me how one joins the panentheistic club.

    Atheists and Pantheists and Panentheists - Oh My! James F. McGrath 2010

  • My personal choice is faith in God -- not the anthropomorphic God of Western religion, but a panentheistic faith in a supreme power that is at the same time immanent (present) and transcendent, and that is the unity of all life expressed in an infinite variety of ways, moving toward its own realization in that unity being re-established.

    Ed Gurowitz, Ph.D.: Belief Is Easy, But Faith Takes Discipline 2010

  • Indeed, cancer might be a helpful image of evil within such a panentheistic analogy.

    Adventures in the Spirit: Part Four James F. McGrath 2009

  • Clearly Paul uses this as a connecting platform, without accepting a panentheistic/polytheistic/pluralist paradigm, as one can clearly glean by the immediate and larger context of Acts.

    Sunday School: Genesis 1:1-2:3 James F. McGrath 2009

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