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Title: | Spinozistic Pantheism, the Environment and Christianity | Contributor(s): | Forrest, Peter (author) | Publication Date: | 2010 | DOI: | 10.1007/s11841-010-0220-6 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/7420 | Abstract: | I am not a pantheist and I don't believe that pantheism is consistent with Christianity. My preferred speculation is what I call the Swiss Cheese theory: we and our artefacts are the holes in God, the only Godless parts of reality. In this paper, I begin by considering a world rather like ours but without any beings capable of sin. Ignoring extraterrestrials and angels we could consider the world, say, 5 million years ago. Pantheism was, I say, true at that time. That is my qualified endorsement of pantheism. I then use the Sin premise, namely that we are capable of sinning, to argue that beings like us are not parts of God and I examine some consequences. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Sophia, 49(4), p. 464-473 | Publisher: | Springer Netherlands | Place of Publication: | Netherlands | ISSN: | 1873-930X 0038-1527 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 220315 Philosophy of Religion | Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 970122 Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies | Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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