Panentheism

Panentheism, literally "all-in-God-ism", "affirms that although God and the world are ontologically distinct [i.e., not the same] and God transcends the world, the world is 'in' God ontologically." ^ [1]^ This is not to be confused with pantheism, which understands God to be the world. For most panentheists, God is intimately connected to the world and yet remains greater than the world. In this view, events and changes in the universe affect and change God, and he is therefore a temporal being. As the universe grows, God learns as he increases in knowledge and being.

Panentheism has been associated with process theology and aspects of open theism, including theologians such as Paul Tillich, Wolfhart Pannenberg, Jurgen Moltmann, Robert Jenson, and possibly Karl Rahner.

Media

• Against Panentheism (YouTube), Oliver Crisp

Notes

1. ? John W. Cooper, Panentheism: The Other God of the Philosophers (Baker Academic, 2006), p. 18.

Resources

• John W. Cooper, Panentheism: The Other God of the Philosophers. Baker Academic, 2006.

See also

• Pantheism
• Theism
• Process theology
• Open theism
• Impassibility

External links

• Panentheism, Part 1, Part 2 (PDF), by Norman Geisler ( Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics)
• What is Panentheism?
• Panentheism ( Elwell Evangelical Dictionary)
• Panentheism (Wikipedia)