Definition of panentheism in English:
panentheism
noun panˈɛnθiːɪz(ə)mpaˈnenTHēˌizəm
mass nounThe belief or doctrine that God is greater than the universe and includes and interpenetrates it.
Example sentencesExamples
- A corollary to panentheism is that God evolves as the universe evolves.
- Foundational to this claim is that religion needs to be understood in terms of naturalistic theism, or panentheism, rather than supernaturalism.
- Clayton recommends panentheism as the means of avoiding pantheism's collapsing of the concepts of God and world, of preserving divine transcendence, and of understanding God as cause of all.
- I do not believe in the panentheistic idea that the creation is within God as a present reality, but I do believe in panentheism as an eschatological destiny.
- This view of God as existing in and giving life to all things is called panentheism.
Derivatives
adjective
The panentheistic view, which is pretty standard in modern theology is that God's not completely remote from the world and completely transcendent, but nor is the sacred completely absorbed into the world.
Example sentencesExamples
- There is another way to view the relation of theism and science apart from a panentheistic harmonization.
- I do not believe in the panentheistic idea that the creation is within God as a present reality, but I do believe in panentheism as an eschatological destiny.
- Blackwell indicates his preference for a panentheistic understanding of the relationship between God and the material universe: this is the understanding of God that sees God as immanent in, but not confined by, the universe as a whole.