different between panentheistic vs panentheism

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæn?n?i??st?k/

Adjective

panentheistic (comparative more panentheistic, superlative most panentheistic)

1. Of or relating to panentheism.
   • 1909, The Quarterly Review, p. 124:

     The mystic is one to whom the unitive, pantheistic, or at least the panentheistic, aspects of the divinity are as congenial as the deistic, polytheistic, and anthropomorphic aspects are to the institutional mind.

   • 1964, Charles Hartshorne, Man's Vision of God and the Logic of Theism, p. 348:

     Just as AR is the whole positive content of perfection, so CW, or the conception of the Creator-and-the-Whole-of-what-he-has-created as constituting one life, the super-whole which in its everlasting essence is uncreated (and does not necessitate just the parts which the whole has) but in its de facto concreteness is created - this panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

   • 1996, Michael W. Fox, The Boundless Circle: Caring for Creatures and Creation, p. 266:

     Through panentheistic sensibility, our ancestors conceived a Covenant between Creator and Creation that humankind is enjoined, spiritually and ethically, to uphold.

English

Alternative forms

• pan-en-theism, Panentheism, Pan-en-theism

Etymology

Borrowed from German Panentheismus, coined by Karl Christian Friedrich Krause in 1828 from Ancient Greek ??? ?? ??? (pân en theôi, “all in god”) +? -ismus (“-ism”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pæn??n?i?z?m/

Noun

panentheism (uncountable)

1. (philosophy, religion) A doctrine that the universe subsists within God, but that God nevertheless transcends or has some existence separate from the universe.
   • 1874, Robert Flint, The Philosophy of History in France and Germany, p. 484,

     The third great age of humanity (das Reifalter) is that in which all its powers are fully and harmoniously developed... and in which panentheism is universally and cordially accepted as the only true and adequate doctrine either of science or of society.

   • 1895, Benito Pérez Galdós, Doña perfecta, p. 84,

     Pantheism or panentheism... is condemned by the Church, as well as by the teachings of Schopenhauer and of the modern Hartmann.

   • 1964, Charles Hartshorne, Man's Vision of God and the Logic of Theism, p. 348,

     This panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations. Thus ARCW, or absolute-relative panentheism, is the one doctrine that really states the whole of what all theists, if not all atheists as well, are implicitly talking about.

2. (rare) A belief in all gods.

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