Is panentheism heretical?
Is panentheism heretical?
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On the surface not necessarily.
But in certain readings where it denies and extinguished the individuality and independence of the human soul then yes absolutely
That's interesting because I would have thought the more heretical implications were the denial of the individuality and independence of the personified God. That is, in reducing the God as a character to God as a divine essence or quality.
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If God doesn't have a mind like the God of Christianity then what made it create the universe when it did instead of some time before?
If creation was a necessary consequence of God's properties than the only intuitive creation times would be never or infinitely old.
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So panentheism implies spontaneous (rather than wilful) creation, or no creation at all?
You're forgetting the Christian God as per the Trinity is already reconciled to this apparent contradiction of the Father and the divine substance
>then what made it create the universe when it did instead of some time before? If creation was a necessary consequence of God's properties than the only intuitive creation times would be never or infinitely old.
Thomas Aquinas addressed this. He proposed a third option which is why assume there was any time before the creation? Rather there could not have been, there was simply nothing that could be called time before creation