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Panentheism has gained popularity among contemporary thinkers. This belief system explains that “all is in God” as a soul is related to a body, so God is related to the world. In Panentheism—The Other God of the Philosophers, philosopher and theologian John Cooper traces the growth and evolution of this intricate theology from Plotinus to Alfred North Whitehead to the present. This landmark...

theologies all have deep historical roots, roots that go back to the Greeks. In this sense they all represent “Gods of the philosophers.” These roots are not numerous, diverse, or hard to locate. Most contemporary alternatives to classical theism are branches of a single family tree with roots in Plato and Neoplatonism. Broadly speaking, this is the ancient tradition of panentheism, the topic of this book. Those theologies, such as neoorthodoxy and naturalistic pantheism, that are not in this family
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