Panentheism

"Is panentheism," Google says, "the belief of do- or doctrine that God is greater than the universe and includes and in- interpenetrates it? Is, uh, panentheism an accurate view of God? Specifically, is it a more accurate representation of him than the tr- than the traditional white-robed man or the postmodern all-around-us views?"

Yeah, thanks.

Panentheism is not the Catholic position on the nature of God's ubiquity or omnipresence.

Okay.

Um, the Catholic position is that God is everywhere and certainly exceeds the, the physical universe, but not in the manner of a panentheist.

Pantheism is that all of creation is God.

Panentheism is that God is separate from creation, but He can imbue Himself into creation.

That's panentheistic.

Well, God does that through His uncreated energies.

And all of you jiving with me know that, yes, there's truth to what I'm saying.

The Bible has panentheism all throughout.

Panentheism is nothing can exist outside of God, outside of the larger consciousness system.

Literally, there is no way for it to exist since God is the structure itself.

And when he made everything, he wanted to experience his creation through his children, through his image.

Um, and it's a challenge to expand a classical understanding to include those elements which presumably were thought to pollute God, right? Fluidity, temporality, feeling, change, all these different aspects, and do so arguably in a panentheistic model, but it's a unique panentheism, right?

Mm.

Panentheism's a wide umbrella under which there's a lot of different models.

And some argue for pantheism.

I don't think that's the case.