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Regarding panentheism.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)

National Catholic Reporter | September 10, 2004 | Copyright

I love Jeanette Cooperman's stuff and have been reading her articles in NCR for many years. May I suggest she change the word pantheism to panentheism in her article "Compassion is for the birds" (NCR, Aug, 13). Small word change, big difference in meaning.

For me pantheism means a belief that God and the whole universe are one and the same thing and that God does not exist as a separate Spirit. Panentheism, on the other hand, for me at least, means that God is everywhere, as I learned in childhood catechism classes. It…

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Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter ...exist as a separate Spirit. Panentheism, on the other hand, for me...MESSING Brighton, Mich. [Editor's note: Cooperman originally did use the word panentheism in her article. It was changed to pantheism by an NCR editor.]

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