Omnipresence

Omnipresence or ubiquity is a theological term of art that features the all-encompassing presence ( of God).

Ubiquity has several theological aspects:

So there is the panentheistic idea that God is present in all things. Although it is not completely determined by the things ( pantheism ), but it can be felt in everything.

Furthermore, there are in the anthropomorphic conceptions of God special aspects of observing and hats of the people targeted (God as Father, God as a shepherd, education of the human race ). This is evident in the words of the 23rd and the 139th Psalm ( "The Lord is my shepherd " ) expressed: " I sit or stand up, so YOU know it." The notion of a divine omnipresence is constitutive for the image of the All-seeing eye.

In the Lutheran doctrine of the Eucharist Christ's presence is justified by the idea of ​​omnipresence of the exalted Christ, which belongs also to His glorious body, by virtue of his deity. This is a forward by Martin Luther against Ulrich Zwingli and John Calvin doctrine of the Real Presence of Christ in the Eucharist.

The Orthodox theology rejects the ubiquity and teaches instead that God may be excluded from any place ( Negative Theology).