Benedikt Krämer

Im Schwerpunkt dieses Heftes werfen Dieter Teichert, Gisela Schlüter, Gerhard Schreiber und Martin Laube einige Schlaglichter auf die noch ungeschriebene Begriffsgeschichte von Trost. Was sie bei ... mehr

Contemporary theology has shown a growing interest in panentheism – a term coined by nineteenth century philosopher K. C. F. Krause. Central to panentheism is the claim that everything / the world is in god (πᾶν ἐν θεῷ). This way to conceive of the god-world-relation is, in fact, no modern invention. It is prominent, for example, in several ancient Greek philosophers – among them Plotinus. The present paper inquires into the panentheistic structure of Plotinus’ philosophy and considers three aspects: 1. the distinctive features of Plotinian panentheism, including the meaning of the notoriously vague preposition ›in‹, 2. the source of Plotinian panentheism, 3. the function of panentheistic diction in Plotinus’ Enneads. mehr