Etymology

panentheism

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Today it means: A doctrine that the universe subsists within God, but that God nevertheless transcends or has some existence separate from the universe. Full definition →

German Panentheismus ← Ancient Greek πᾶν ἐν θεῷ
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  1. Ancient Greek · derived fromπᾶν ἐν θεῷ“all in god”
  2. German · borrowed fromPanentheismus
  3. English todaypanentheism

Borrowed from German Panentheismus, coined by Karl Christian Friedrich Krause in 1828 from Ancient Greek πᾶν ἐν θεῷ (pân en theōî, “all in god”) + -ismus (“-ism”).

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