Relative Monism: New approaches to a panentheistic  understanding of the relation between God and creation

Paolo Gamberini

doi:10.30439/2021.2.3

Published : 2021-12-31

Vol. 32 No. 2 (2021)

Relative Monism: New approaches to a panentheistic understanding of the relation between God and creation

Paolo Gamberini

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4389-6903

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30439/2021.2.3

Abstract

Christian theology urgently needs – in dialogue with modernity, science and religious pluralism – a critical assessment of the so-called theistic paradigm. Such a “new” paradigm defines God as essentially related to createdness and lays aside an interventionist and supernaturalistic model of divine agency. A post-theistic model of God may revisit the Neoplatonic influence in Medieval theology, especially in the works of Thomas Aquinas, in Eckhart’s mysticism, and Nicholas of Cusa’s thought, to support a panentheistic understanding of the relation between God and creation. The oneness of God’s being with created being, God as “non-aliud”, the distinction between God and Godhead, and the identity of God’s spirit with the human soul, are some of the major themes from Classical theism that can be assumed within the framework of the paradigm shift that has been occurring in Contemporary Christology and Trinitarian theology. Special attention will be dedicated to Rahner’s Grundaxiom because his idea of the identity of immanent and economic Trinity aims at
unfolding the experiential dimension of the tripersonal God while maintaining the
ineffability of God’s divinity. A Post-theistic approach to Christian theology makes
possible what may be called a theological Relative Monism

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