Does Nature Know Sex?:

This paper is to critically compare R.S. Corrington’s pantheism and C. Keller’s panentheism by the medium of a thought of sex. Human sexual behavior is between the transcendental and the natural. It is really natural behavior in that it derives from the species’ need for reproduction. However, there lies some transcendental feature in it in that human individuals appropriate its natural instinct in a subliminal way to think of love. When one says, ‘Let’s make love,’ these words implicitly refers to both dimensions at once. The crucial difference between pantheism and panentheism is that God is Nature in pantheism, while God is bigger than Nature in panentheism. Here the en of panentheism points to the bigger part of God, which is the divine tran-scendental feature. What if sex in its subliminal form refers to the way of the transcendental in nature? Indeed, the sacred is always revealed in our quotidian lives. The transcendental does not mean any place in heaven. In this sense, sex has a potential to become the transcendental. Real love goes beyond the hormonal and algorithmic process of human biology.