Panentheism: God, Nature and the Problem of Evil

Photo by iuliu illes on Unsplash. We think of streams as pure, clean water, but they can have mud in them. Is the stream of energy-information we’ve considered also muddied?

The fourth in the series on panentheism which means “all in God,” but which has a range of definitions. It is a sort of middle ground between traditional theism and pantheism. Here I explore the advantages it offers in understanding God’s role in nature, but also the challenge of the existence of evil when God is seen as intimately tied to and involved with nature.