If the relation of God (the absolute) to the world fell outside God, that relation would necessarily fall within some further, more inclusive entity that embraced both God, the world, and the relations between them.
Something that must be true or must happen, with no other possibility—the opposite of something that could be true or false.
Relation (in philosophy)(as used in this statement about God and the world)
A connection or way that two things are linked to or affect each other—for example, the relation between a parent and child, or between cause and effect.
metaphysics(Hartshorne's naturalistic redefinition of metaphysics)
On Hartshorne's view, the study not of realities beyond the physical, but of features of reality that are ubiquitous or that would exist in any possible world.
panentheism(Offered as the best classification of Ramakrishna's position given his affirmation that 'all is Brahman' and that Brahman 'has become everything')
The metaphysical position that the cosmos is contained within and dependent on God/Brahman, but God/Brahman exceeds and is not reducible to the cosmos (Brahman → cosmos, but not cosmos → Brahman)
On Alston’s interpretation, Hartshorne’s first line of argument is to say that if the relation of the absolute to the world really fell outside the absolute, then this relation would necessarily fall within some further and genuinely single entity that embraced both the absolute and the world and the relations between them. Thus, we must hold, according to Hartshorne, that the God-creature relation is internal to God; otherwise we will have to admit that there is something greater or more inclus