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God’s omnipresence in the world: on possible meanings of ‘en’ in panentheism

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Gasser, Georg·2019·International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
DOI 10.1007/s11153-018-9695-9
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Panenetheism is the claim that God and the cosmos are intimately inter-related, with the cosmos being in God and God being in the cosmos. What does this exactly mean? The aim of this paper is to address this question by sheding light on four possible models of God-world-inter-relatedness. Being critical of those models, which understand maximal immanence in a literal, spatial sense, the paper argues in favor of a model, which cashes out immanence in terms of divine activity. God is, where God acts. Since God acts upon all of creation everywhere and anytime, God is omnipresent to it at all times. Thus, the proposal is to read the ‘en’ in ‘panetheism’ in an ‘agential sense’: God is in the cosmos by creating and sustaining it and the cosmos is in God by constantly being within the sphere of divine activity.

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Authors
Gasser, G.
Affiliations
Universität Innsbruck (AT)
Corresponding author
Gasser, Georg
ORCID
Gasser, Georg
Venue
International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2018-11-26
Volume
85
Issue
1
Pages
43-62
ISSN
  • 0020-7047 (ISSN-L)
  • 1572-8684
DOI
10.1007/s11153-018-9695-9
OpenAlex
W2902869634
Cited by
53
References
3
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 18 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 3
FWCI
18.86
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Licence
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  • International Journal for Philosophy of Religion (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • Digital Library of the University of Innsbruck (University of Innsbruck) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • OPUS (Augsburg University) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
John Templeton Foundation (57397)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Karl Barth and Christian Theology
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Study and Philosophy of Religion
  • Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Philosophy and Theoretical Science
Keywords
panentheism, divine immanence, divine action, ontology of God

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