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Panentheism

The view that all things are in God, while God is more than all things.

Philosophy and the study of mysticism

The term was coined by the German philosopher Karl Christian Friedrich Krause in the nineteenth century. Panentheism holds that the world exists within the divine, as the many within the one, yet that God exceeds the world. Many readers find it describes Rāmānuja’s Vedānta, Hasidic teaching and much Christian mysticism.