Panentheism
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Panentheism is the view that the world is in God and yet God also transcends it (i.e. is somehow different from the world). Not to be confused with pantheism, which understands God to be the world, panentheism views the world as God's body. Thus, God is intimately connected to the world and yet remains greater than the world. Events and changes in the universe affect and change God, and so panentheists generally believe in the passibility of God. As the universe grows and learns, some panentheists assert that God also increases in knowledge and being.
Panentheism has been associated with theologies such as process theology and aspects of open theism, and theologians such as Paul Tillich, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jurgen Moltmann, Robert Jenson, and possibly Karl Rahner.
This article is a stub. Please edit it to add information.[edit] Resources
- John W. Cooper, Panentheism: The Other God of the Philosophers. Baker Academic, 2006.
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- Panentheism, Part 1, Part 2 (PDF), by Norman Geisler (Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics)
- What is Panentheism?
- Panentheism (Elwell Evangelical Dictionary)
- Panentheism (Wikipedia)
