What Is Panentheism | Oliver Crisp

Lecture Title - Against Panentheism

This paper offers an argument against panentheism. Although the doctrine has proven difficult to define, this paper provides a working definition of the view, and proceeds to argue that given this way of thinking about the doctrine, it has serious theological drawbacks. It then explores some of these theological drawbacks. In a final section this paper gives some reasons for thinking that the classical theistic alternative to panentheism is preferable, all things considered.

Oliver D. Crisp (DLitt University of Aberdeen; PhD University of London) is Principal of St Mary’s College and Head of the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews. He is also Professor of Analytic Theology and Director of the Logos Institute for Analytic and Exegetical Theology. He is author of numerous publications, including Jonathan Edwards among the Theologians (Eerdmans, 2015), Saving Calvinism: Expanding the Reformed Tradition (IVP Academic, 2016), The Word Enfleshed: Exploring the Person and Work of Christ (Baker Academic, 2016), and Analyzing Doctrine: Toward a Systematic Theology (Baylor University Press, 2019).

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