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Panentheism
All-in-God — the view that creation exists within God; distinguished from pantheism (God is creation) and theism (God is separate from creation).
Panentheism (from pan, all, en, in, theos, God) is the philosophical-theological position that all of creation exists within God, while God simultaneously transcends creation. Distinguished from pantheism (which identifies God with creation) and from classical theism (which places a sharp ontological separation between God and creation). Orthodox theology is sometimes read as compatible with panentheism given the perichoresis of divine energies and creation — but Palamas's essence-energies distinction preserves the real distinction between Creator and creature even in theosis.