Wessling on 'Idealistic Panentheism'
The third essay in Idealism and Christian Theology is "Idealistic Panentheism: Reflections on Jonathan Edwards's Account of the God-World Relation" by Jordan Wessling. The essay is avowedly not interpretive, but rather aims at an evaluation of a certain view in philosophical theology, dubbed 'idealistic panentheism,' which has been attributed to Edwards. This view takes the whole created world—including human minds—to be ideas in the mind of God. It is idealistic insofar as it takes reality to be fundamentally mental. It is panentheistic in a literal and straightforward sense: the created world exists in God's mind. However, it is not pantheistic...
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Baruch Spinoza
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Contemporary Thinkers
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Creation and Conservation
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Historical Thinkers
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Idealism/Phenomenalism
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Jonathan Edwards
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Jordan Wessling
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Joshua Farris
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Mark Hamilton
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Metaphysics
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Ontology
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Philosophical Theology
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Philosophy
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Theology
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