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Definition of Pantheism

1. Noun. (rare) worship that admits or tolerates all gods.

2. Noun. The doctrine or belief that God is the universe and its phenomena (taken or conceived of as a whole) or the doctrine that regards the universe as a manifestation of God.

Definition of Pantheism

1. n. The doctrine that the universe, taken or conceived of as a whole, is God; the doctrine that there is no God but the combined force and laws which are manifested in the existing universe; cosmotheism.

Definition of Pantheism

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of pantheism) ¹

2. Noun. The belief that the universe is in some sense divine and should be revered. Pantheism identifies the universe with God but denies any personality or transcendence of such a God. ¹

3. Noun. (rare) The belief in all gods; omnitheism. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pantheism

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Pantheism

pantechnicon pantechnicons panted pantelegraph pantelegraphs panter panters panteth pantetheinase pantetheine

pantetheine 4'-phosphate pantetheine kinase pantetheines pantethine panthea pantheism (current term) pantheisms pantheist pantheistic pantheistical

pantheistically pantheists panthenol pantheologies pantheologist pantheologists pantheology pantheon pantheonise pantheonised

Literary usage of Pantheism

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The last process is the source and explanation of pantheism. ... pantheism assumed the identity of cause and effect, and the consequent adequacy of each ..."

2. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1905)
"Harris, WT pantheism or God the universe. J. o/Specul. Philos., ix, 1875. ... Peabody, AF Is pantheism the legitimate outcome of modern science? ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"If, then, pantheism not only merges the separate existences of the world in one existence, ... The Church has repeatedly condemned the errors of pantheism. ..."

4. The Non-religion of the Future: A Sociological Study by Jean-Marie Guyau (1897)
"I. Optimistic pantheism—Transformation of transcendent Deism into immanent theism and ... Fiske and Spencer—Diverse forms of pantheism—Optimistic and ..."

5. Anti-theistic Theories: Being the Baird Lecture for 1877 by Robert Flint (1894)
"MODERN ENGLISH pantheism. pantheism is advocated by Mr Charles Bray in "Illusion and Delusion ; or, Modern pantheism versus Spiritualism," and by FWJ, ..."

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