"Theology is not ever identical with faith or with belief—but, rather, motivated by faith, it takes all our beliefs into the evolving perspective of its interactive processes. Theology as process remains—like every living, breathing organism—open-ended.”

Catharine Keller

On the Mystery: Discerning God in Process, p. 10

Silly a/theists. You’re all tilting at windmills. God is Existence itself. There is one God –creator, sustainer, and destroyer of all from within, the intelligence inherent in every atom– and it is called by many names. None of these names are true. Not Yahweh or Allah or Brahman or Tao.. Not “Nature,” not “Gaia,” not even “Universe.” Every attempt is a metaphor for the unspeakable truth.

You can describe your subjective experience of God using a personal metaphor. You can describe your subjective experience of God using an impersonal metaphor. You can describe God as nonexistent and mythological –it makes no difference & it all fits within the Whole.

The only thing you can’t do is make an objective statement about God and prove or disprove it through subjective evidence. Existence is both subject and object; you can’t stand apart from Existence and describe it or name it. That which creates us is within us and beyond us. It is farther than the expanding edge of the knowable universe; it is closer than your heartbeat.

-- J Pierre Reville, A Pantheist's Pascal's Wager HereticAsylum

theopoetics

ignite your spiritual imagination

an interdisciplinary field of study that combines elements of poetic analysis, process theology, narrative theology, and postmodern philosophy.

Panentheism

(meaning, from the Ancient Greek πᾶν pân ("all"), ἐν en ("in") and Θεός Theós ("God"), "all-in-God") is a belief system whichposits that the divine – whether as a single God, number of gods, or other form of "cosmic animating force"[1] – interpenetrates every part ofthe universe and extends, timelessly [and, presumably, spacelessly], beyond it. Unlike pantheism, which holds that the divine and the universe are identical,[2] panentheism maintains a distinction between the divine and non-divine and the significance of both.[3]

[1] Hinnells, J. R., The New Penguin Handbook of Living Religions, Penguin, London: 1997, p. 282.

[2] Erwin Fahlbusch, Geoffrey William Bromiley, David B. Barrett (1999). The Encyclopedia of Christianity. Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. p. 21. ISBN 0-8028-2416-1.

[3] John Culp (2013). "Panentheism," Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Spring. Retrieved 18 March 2014.

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Another theological term which refers to God's penetration and permeation of the cosmos is "process theology," which emphasizes the divine Presence unfolding in the processes of this universe of space and time. as St. Paul said, of "groaning in one great act of giving birth," to reveal God's children (Rom. 8.19,22). Theosis and Incarnation show how intimately and lovingly God involves himself with the process of human life. And the Big Bang and hundreds of billions of galaxies flying through space show the grandeur of the process of God's creation.

Biblical Panentheism

In a Chicago Tribune article entitled, “All in your head,” Ronald Kotulak explores how the mechanics of brain function – billions of neurons communicating through trillions of synaptic connections – results in consciousness. He writes,
"A big clue – one that runs through the work of physicists, biologists and neuroscientists – is that everything exchanges information…matter and energy exchange information to change states from particles to atoms to stars, planets, galaxies and living creatures. In that sense, consciousness is a property of information exchange."(11)

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