The Pantheism and Panentheism Project

The Pantheism and Panentheism Project was built upon another project sponsored by The John Templeton Foundation from 2011-2013 on “Exploring Alternative Concepts of God.” It was the first project which centered the work of analytic philosophers on alternative conceptions of the divine to traditional theism. While this project was larger, its scope is more narrow, focusing on pantheism and panentheism and some challenges facing both approaches to thinking about the metaphysics of the divine. The project ran from January 2017 through September 2019 and included: invite-only workshops at the Rutgers Center for Philosophy of Religion and the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham, public lectures at Marist College and the University of Birmingham, and a competition for stipends to support proposals by analytic philosophers and analytic theologians working on problems related to pantheism and panentheism.