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Article: Regarding panentheism.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- September 10, 2004
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I love Jeanette Cooperman's stuff and have been reading her articles in NCR for many years. May I suggest she change the word pantheism to panentheism in her article "Compassion is for the birds" (NCR, Aug, 13). Small word change, big difference in meaning.
For me pantheism means a belief that God and the whole universe are one and the same thing and that God does not exist as a separate Spirit. Panentheism, on the other hand, for me at least, means that God is everywhere, as I learned in childhood catechism classes. It ...