Cockroaches aren't God. (critique of panentheism) (Column)

From: Commonweal | Date: January 13, 1995| Author: Callahan, Sidney | Copyright information

"Iobject to calling the universe 'God's body'; isn't this simply pantheism?" I was in the midst of another debate with a circle of women friends over ecofeminism, or the new fusion of feminism and ecology. "No, no," I am told. "This is not pantheism but panentheism."

"What! What's that?"

Panentheism, I have now learned, after looking it up at least ten times, is "the doctrine that God includes the world as part, though not the whole, of God's being."

Even...

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