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Panentheism: Is the World in God?

Panentheism: Is the World in God? The search for God leads to strange ideas. Panentheism claims that the world is in God but God is more than the world. Can this new kind of God make sense? The post...

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Why Seek an Alternative God?

Why Seek an Alternative God? [God] Is God, if there is a God, a personal, conscious, all-powerful Supreme Being? Some offer radically different concepts of ‘God’. The post Why Seek an Alternative God?...

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Panentheism: Is the World in God?

The search for God leads to strange ideas. Panentheism claims that the world is in God but God is more than the world. The idea is to take from pantheism a natural order and a sacred world, and from...

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Novel Visions of the Divine?

Theists and atheists debate whether God exists. But about what God are they arguing? There’s enormous variation in the kinds of Gods that populate world religions. Philosophers, too, add radical ideas...

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New Visions of the Divine?

Western religions have a specific image of the divine. For example, God is not only a person but also seems to have gender—and it is always masculine. Some are now challenging this traditional notion...

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Alternative Concepts of God? (Part 1)

Is God, if there is a God, a personal, conscious, all-powerful Supreme Being? Some offer radically different concepts of ‘God’, exploring novel ideas of what God may be like. They challenge theism –...

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Alternative Concepts of God? (Part 3)

Is God, if there is a God, a personal, conscious, all-powerful Supreme Being? Some offer radically different concepts of ‘God’, exploring novel ideas of what God may be like. They challenge theism—the...

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Pantheism: Is God All Reality?

Is our search for God too narrow? Why do some philosophers espouse ‘pantheism’? Pantheism’s claim is not shy: God is the Cosmos and the Cosmos is God. But does re-naming all-that-exists ‘God’ add...

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Alternative Concepts of God? (Part 2)

Is God, if there is a God, a personal, conscious, all-powerful Supreme Being? Some offer radically different concepts of ‘God’, exploring novel ideas of what God may be like. They challenge theism—the...

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What can we Learn from Alternative Gods?

Novel concepts of God challenge theism—rejecting the God of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Is this ‘heresy’? Or enlarging our vision of what the Ultimate can be like?” The post What can we Learn from...

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