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Years ago, I actually called myself a panentheist, and sometimes still do so, but if the various God-concepts are defined as in the linked articles below, I would presumably be closer to theism?! Otherwise, I have ton say that the idea that puny human theologians can know anything important about Ultimate Reality sounds hubristic...
The difficulty of demarcating panentheism
I'm about halfway through essay #2. I like the format Stenmark uses, building step by step.
ReplyDeleteP.S. He's Head of Department and Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the Department of Theology, Uppsala University, Sweden.
DeleteMy "demarcation" of panentheism is a personal god who emanates a world, which is thus metaphysically somehow "identical" with God, while God is nevertheless much larger than this world. If the Neo-Platonist One is taken to be a personal god, then that would count as panentheism. In reality, of course, each religious system is fairly unique, and the attempts to demarcate them might just be a Christian-theological prejudice. The theologians "must" demarcate classical theism from everything else, for...ahem...theological reasons.
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