Panentheism (meaning "all-in-God", from the
Ancient Greek pân, "all",
en, "in" and
Theós, "God"), also known as
Monistic Monotheism, is a
belief system which
posits that the
divine – whether as
a single God,
number of gods, or other form of "cosmic animating force" – every part of
the universe and extends, timelessly (and, presumably, spacelessly) beyond it. Unlike
pantheism, which holds that the divine and the universe are
identical, panentheism maintains a distinction between the divine and non-divine and the significance of both.