TY - CHAP

T1 - Deploying panpsychism for the demarcation of panentheism

AU - Leidenhag, Joanna

PY - 2020/6/5

Y1 - 2020/6/5

N2 - Joanna Leidenhag addresses the problem that if panentheism cannot be clearly defined and demarcated from neighbouring theological positions, then it is in danger of becoming a vacuous term, devoid of any purpose or promise within theological discourse. Leidenhag helps panentheists avoid this dismal fate in two ways. First, she provides a model of the kind of definition and demarcation necessary, by outlining the family of positions known as panpsychism in philosophy of mind. Second, she tests the correspondence of specific versions of panpsychism to panentheism’s two central claims; that the world is the body of God, and that the world is in God. She concludes that a cosmopsychism that posits a non-constitutive relation between the one cosmic subject and the many individual subjects, may be a useful, even necessary, ontology for panentheists to adopt if they are to deliver on the promise of a middle path between classical theism and pantheism.

AB - Joanna Leidenhag addresses the problem that if panentheism cannot be clearly defined and demarcated from neighbouring theological positions, then it is in danger of becoming a vacuous term, devoid of any purpose or promise within theological discourse. Leidenhag helps panentheists avoid this dismal fate in two ways. First, she provides a model of the kind of definition and demarcation necessary, by outlining the family of positions known as panpsychism in philosophy of mind. Second, she tests the correspondence of specific versions of panpsychism to panentheism’s two central claims; that the world is the body of God, and that the world is in God. She concludes that a cosmopsychism that posits a non-constitutive relation between the one cosmic subject and the many individual subjects, may be a useful, even necessary, ontology for panentheists to adopt if they are to deliver on the promise of a middle path between classical theism and pantheism.

UR - https://www.mentis.de/view/title/55646

U2 - 10.30965/9783957437303_005

DO - 10.30965/9783957437303_005

M3 - Chapter

SN - 9783957431714

T3 - Innsbruck studies in philosophy of religion

SP - 65

EP - 90

BT - Panentheism and Panpsychism

A2 - Brüntrup, Godehard

A2 - Glöcke , Benedikt

A2 - Jaskolla, Ludwig

PB - Mentis

ER -