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Novel concepts of God challenge theism—rejecting the God of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Is this ‘heresy’? Or enlarging our vision of what the Ultimate can...

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What can we Learn from Alternative Gods?

Episode 10

Season 13

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Why Seek an Alternative God? [God] Is God, if there is a God, a personal, conscious, all-powerful Supreme Being? Some offer radically different concepts of ‘God’.

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Why Seek an Alternative God?

Episode 10

Season 12

26:47

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Panentheism: Is the World in God? The search for God leads to strange ideas. Panentheism claims that the world is in God but God is more than the world. Can this new kind of...

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Panentheism: Is the World in God?

Episode 11

Season 12

26:45

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Is our search for God too narrow? Why do some philosophers espouse Pantheism? Pantheism’s claim is not shy; God is Everything and Everything is God.

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Pantheism: Is the World God?

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Season 11

26:45

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Philosophers explore novel ideas of what God may be like. They challenge classical theism, the personal creator of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

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Alternative Concepts of God

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Season 11

26:45

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Is God, if there is a God, a personal, conscious, all-powerful Supreme Being? Some offer radically different concepts of ‘God’, exploring novel ideas of what God...

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Alternative Concepts of God? (Part 1)

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1:42:21

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Is God, if there is a God, a personal, conscious, all-powerful Supreme Being? Some offer radically different concepts of ‘God’, exploring novel ideas of what God...

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Alternative Concepts of God? (Part 2)

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1:45:27

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Is God, if there is a God, a personal, conscious, all-powerful Supreme Being? Some offer radically different concepts of ‘God’, exploring novel ideas of what God...

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Alternative Concepts of God? (Part 3)

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1:44:33

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Is our search for God too narrow? Why do some philosophers espouse ‘pantheism’? Pantheism’s claim is not shy: God is the Cosmos and the Cosmos is God. But...

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Pantheism: Is God All Reality?

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1:10:47

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The search for God leads to strange ideas. Panentheism claims that the world is in God but God is more than the world. The idea is to take from pantheism a natural order and...

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Panentheism: Is the World in God?

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49:50

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Theists and atheists debate whether God exists. But about what God are they arguing? There’s enormous variation in the kinds of Gods that populate world religions....

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Novel Visions of the Divine?

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1:10:42

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Western religions have a specific image of the divine. For example, God is not only a person but also seems to have gender—and it is always masculine. Some are now...

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New Visions of the Divine?

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43:32

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Ian Barbour

Professor Emeritus of Science, Technology and Society, Carleton College

John Bishop

Professor of Philosophy, University of Auckland

Andrei Buckareff

Professor of Philosophy, Marist College

Philip Clayton

Ingram Professor of Theology, Claremont School of Theology

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Alternative Concepts of God

Episodes

What can we Learn from Alternative Gods?

Why Seek an Alternative God?

Panentheism: Is the World in God?

Topic Series

Alternative Concepts of God? (Part 1)

Alternative Concepts of God? (Part 2)

Alternative Concepts of God? (Part 3)

Contributors

Ian Barbour

John Bishop

Andrei Buckareff

Philip Clayton