Non-Dual Śaivism and the Panentheism of Karl Christian Friedrich Krause
Religions June 24, 2025 Klara Hedling, Benedikt Paul Göcke
This paper explores striking philosophical parallels between Karl Christian Friedrich Krause’s 19th-century articulation of panentheism and the much earlier non-dual Śaiva philosophy of the Pratyabhijñā school in Kashmir. While Krause is widely credited with coining the term panentheism, models of divine immanence and transcendence akin to panentheism are already present in the Pratyabhijñā...