Philosophers Speak of God

TOC: INTRODUCTION: The Standpoint of Panentheism -- A.) The Law of Polarity -- B.) A Classification of Theistic Doctrines -------------- PART ONE - CLASSICAL VIEWS -- 1.) Ancient or Quasi-Panentheism: An Enunciation of Themes (ETCKW / God as Eternal-Temporal Consciousness, Knowing and Including the World): Ikhnaton, Hindu Scriptures, Lao-tse, Judeo-Christian Scriptures, Plato -- 2.) Aristotelian Theism (EC / God as Eternal Consciousness [Not Knowing or Including the World]): Aristotle -- 3.) Classical Theism (ECK / God as Eternal Consciousness, Knowing [but Not Including] the World): Philo, Augustine, Anselm, al-Ghazzali, Maimonides, Aquinas, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Channing, von Hugel -- 4.) Classical Pantheism (ECKW / God as External Consciousness, Knowing and Including the World [So Far as 'Real']): Asvaghosha, Sankara, Ramanuja, Spinoza, Royce, Jeffers -- 5.) Emanationism (E / God as Bare Eternity, the 'One'): Plotinus -- 6.) Temporalistic Theism (ETCK / God as Eternal-Temporal Consciousness, Knowing [but Not Including] the World): Socinus, Lequier -------------- PART TWO - MODERN VIEWS -- 7.) Modern Panentheism (ETCKW / God as Eternal-Temporal Consciousness, Knowing and Including the World in His Own Actuality [but Not in His Essence]): Schelling, Fechner, Peirce, Pfleiderer, Varisco, Whitehead, Berdyaev, Iqbal, Schweitzer, Buber, Radhakrishnan, Weiss, Watts -- 8.) Limited Panentheism (ETCKW / God as Eternal-Temporal Consciousness, Knowing or Partially Knowing, and Partially Including the World): James, Ehrenfels, Brightman -- 9.) Extreme Temporalistic Theism (TCK / God as Purely Temporal Consciousness, Knowing or Partially Knowing the World): Alexander, Berman, Ames, Cattell -- 10.) Extreme Temporalistic Theism (T / God as Purely Temporal [but Not Conscious and Not Knowing the World]): Wieman- - - - - PART THREE: . . . .