ABSTRACT
The Danish panteisme, from the French panthéisme, was formed in the beginning of the eighteenth century from the English “pantheist,” coined from the Greek prefix παν-(all) and θεός (god); it refers to an outlook on life or teaching in which God is everything or everything is God, so that God and the universe are a unity or a whole, and it might involve the worship of nature.1 Developed since Kierkegaard’s time has been the concept of panentheism, with the additional preposition of “en” or “in” changing the meaning to affirming that God is in all things or all things are in God. While it can be argued that Kierkegaard’s thought gives expression to panentheism,2 this article will confine itself to his use of the concept of pantheism.
