PANENTHEISM

PANENTHEISM
   a view which combines the insights of PANTHEISM and DEISM by arguing that the world is included in GOD'S BEING or the ANALOGY of cells in a larger organism. This view was systematically elaborated philosophically by Alfred North WHITEHEAD and applied to THEOLOGY by Charles Hartshorne (1897-).

Concise dictionary of Religion. 2012.

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  • panentheism — [pan ɛnθi:ɪʒ(ə)m] noun the belief or doctrine that God is greater than the universe and includes and interpenetrates it. Derivatives panentheistic adjective …   English new terms dictionary

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