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The Panentheist Circle of Great Britain was formed in October 2005, with a view to laying the foundations for a new type of movement that, while being primarily spiritual in its ethos, would seek to develop a revolutionary social agenda. The organization's basic worldview is akin to that of the philosopher Daniel J. Shepard's Symbiotic Panentheism, but it further espouses what it denotes as a sui generis Christology. The exemplary figure of the Historical Jesus is very much at the Circle's heart. This view of Yeshua as both a spiritual mentor and religio-political guide is
close to the theories emanating from the Westar Institute's Jesus Seminar, et al. Indeed, writers contributing to the Panentheist Circle's online theoretical journal Panentheist.net, edited by Stephen Nuttall, include the likes of Barbara Thiering and Margaret Starbird. Additionally, the Circle is influenced by what has come to be termed the New Science - i.e. the confluence of particle physics, astrophysics and cosmology - and finds basic accord with belief systems as seemingly diverse as Gaudiya Vaishnavism (a form of Hinduism), Kabbalah, Shin Buddhism, Sikhism and Sufism, as well as certain kinds of Neopaganism.
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