panentheism

PANENTHEISM I begin this project by writing that 'images from nature can act as symbols in mediating grace to us.’ My theological perspective belongs to Panentheism, which allows God to be in creation, and creation to be in God in a special way. The New Catholic Encyclopedia defines Panentheism : "Panentheism views all things as being in God without exhausting the infinity of the divine nature. Panentheism stands as a kind of surrelativism holding for a real convertible relation of dependence between God and the world - not only is the world dependent upon God, but God is dependent upon the world. It regards the world as an actual fulfillment of God's creative possibility. Today it describes the views of those who introduce a polarity in the notion of God as both eternal and temporal and as including yet transcending the world. " (4)...