This video features a fascinating conversation with the philosopher and professor, Philip Clayton, on a variety of topics ranging from science, theology, and metaphysics.

This clip is taken from the 2021 Process Summer Intensive put on by the Center for Process Studies at Claremont School of Theology.

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 God make sense? Featuring interviews with Philip Clayton, Marcel Sarot, Michael Levine, Yujin Nagasawa, Sarah Coakley, and Alister McGrath. Season 12, Episode 11. Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn takes viewers on an intriguing global journey into cutting-edge labs, magnificent libraries, hidden gardens, and revered sanctuaries in order to discover state-of-the-art ideas and make them real and relevant.

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In this episode, Andrei speaks about alternative concepts of God; more specifically, on his recent work surrounding pantheism and panentheism. In a word, Andrei argues that if humans are to understand God as “acting in space-time,” they should be inclined to believe that this God exists within time and space, at all spatial locations. Moreover, if they are inclined to think that God is omniscient, then they should also believe that God “is the universe”—that is, God and the universe are essentially made of the same stuff, with God being either identical with or constituted by the cosmos.

An exploration of different concepts of God and the divine is highly relevant to core areas of philosophical research such as metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of mind, action theory, and philosophy of language. The philosophical concept of God also has a strong impact on human understanding of the many theological doctrines concerning the nature and inner life of God, God’s relation to creation, God’s ultimate purposes for reality and how humans understand their own existence in the cosmos. This talk took place at the international conference, Analytic Theology and the Nature of God: Advancing and Challenging Classical Theism, 8-11 August 2017, Munich.