God Embodied in, God Bodying Forth the World: Emergence and Christian Theology

Abstract. I expand on Philip Clayton's application of emergence—in the context of a metaphysical position he calls emergent monism—to conceiving God's relationship to the world. Like Clayton, I adopt a panentheistic perspective, but in a way that I argue is consistent with classical philos...

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1. VerfasserIn: Crain, Steven D. (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Wiley-Blackwell 2006
In: Zygon
Jahr: 2006, Band: 41, Heft: 3, Seiten: 665-674
weitere Schlagwörter:B divine transcendence
B Emergence
B Panentheism
B emergent monism
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Zusammenfassung:Abstract. I expand on Philip Clayton's application of emergence—in the context of a metaphysical position he calls emergent monism—to conceiving God's relationship to the world. Like Clayton, I adopt a panentheistic perspective, but in a way that I argue is consistent with classical philosophical theism and its grammatical analysis of Christian discourse about divine transcendence. In order to exploit further the analogical potential of an emergentist account of human mentality and agency, I argue that the standard panentheistic metaphor The world is the body of God should be complemented by the metaphor God is the body of the world.
ISSN:1467-9744
Enthält:Enthalten in: Zygon
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2005.00767.x