in their two
approaches to panentheism :
Polkinghorne remains suspicious of the
concept. His theology holds the world at a distance from God, stressing divine
transcendence . His God seems always in some sense an operator on the
but it is the strength of panentheism that it can offer such a telling
metaphor. Thomas Tracy also takes Peacocke to task for stretching a concept too
far - he points out that the examples of top-down causation we know about
both classical theism and panentheism . Theism asserts that the
world as it appears to us is real and that it has its origin in an ultimate
principle called spirit. The divine spirit is an active principle in this world
and is in many ways
pantheism ,
but coheres with panentheism and with a view of divinity embodied in the world
as suggested by the second mahavakya
of the Upanishads.
Book Series Index
Next: Clayton, Philip. Tracing the Lines: Constraint and
- 6.6 Recurrent Motifs: Panentheism
and the Suffering of God - 6.6.1 Keith Ward
Section B: Some resources for theological
thinking on God and the world from outside the Christian tradition
(6.7-6.15)
6.7 Introduction
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