Hi Guys;
The way I understand it, pantheism says God is Nature; panentheism says God
is fully in nature and encompasses it; i.e. transcendence is maintained as
well.
George A.
John W Burgeson wrote:
> Bod Dehaan asked: "I have Barbour's 1997 book and have read it
> sporadically. One thing I am not
> convinced of, and would like your opinion on. Does the God that Barbour
> posits exist outside of the universe, i.e., the God of historic
> Christianity?
> Or is God immanent in the universe? I sense that he shies away from the
>
> historic Christian God. What is your reading of him?"
>
> Bob -- I have been struggling to understand Griffin's book the past
> couple of months, and so I've not asked that question of Barbour's
> writings. Griffin asserts "panentheism," which to me is so much like
> pantheism that I have a struggle to understand the difference; in any
> event Griffin's concept has God as a "persuasive force" rather than a
> "coercive force" as the universe unfolds over time. As such, God and the
> universe are coexisting; the universe is sort of "God's soul."
>
> I think Barbour has a more orthodox view than that, but I'm not sure.
> That question has to be, for me, one to study further.
>
> Burgy (John Burgeson)
>
> www.burgy.50megs.com
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