Panentheism across the World's Traditions

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ID23787201
EditorsLoriliai Biernacki, Philip Clayton (0009-0008-6614-4329)
Year2013
Publication date2013-12-04
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenuePanentheism across the Worlds Traditions (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199989898.001.0001
OpenAlexW638583784
ISBN9780199989898
LanguageEN
Citations received16

This volume addresses panentheism, the idea that God, or the divine, is not simply a transcendent being doling out justice and retribution to the good and the wicked. One of the fundamental premises in this book is that panentheism, although first named in the 19th century is in fact not so new, not merely a modern Western invention. The book offers a multi-faceted vision of a concept before the concept takes on a proper name. Panentheism, argues the book, is not simply an esoteric, at times heretical and habitually mystical vision of the world's great religious pasts. Panentheism persists today, born outright in the 19th and 20th centuries, with a proper name and a lineage. In modern panentheism a new paradigm is emerging, one eminently suited to a world view that can no longer shake off the realities of our evolving species and our evolving technological world. Panentheism's enticingly heretical vision of the relationship between the divine and matter has been historically denied the front door. But the dynamism, the porousness between matter and spirit that panentheism offers has been influencing the transformations that have made up the modern world. Perhaps it is an idea whose time has come, now poised to lead us to our brave new world.

Dynamism · Epistemology · Mysticism · Theology · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

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