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Spinozistic Pantheism, the Environment and Christianity

  • Peter Forrest

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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.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)464-473
JournalSophia
Volume49
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2010

Keywords

  • Philosophy of Religion

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