21. DISF - Interdisciplinary Encyclopaedia Of Religion And Science | Pantheism The first meaning of pantheism refers to “transcendental pantheism,” i.e., Such is the pantheism of Spinoza, for example, and that which, http://www.disf.org/en/Voci/92.asp

edited by Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti Philip Larrey and Alberto Strumìa Home Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia Pantheism No part of this article may be reproduced, stored in a retrievial system or transmitted without the prior permission of the Editors. To refer to the content of this article, quote: INTERS – Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science, edited by G. Tanzella-Nitti, P. Larrey and A. Strumia, http://www.inters.org PANTHEISM Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti I. Ancient Philosophical Thought in Comparison with Christian Theology: A Short Historical Account. 1. Archaic Eastern Conceptions and the Buddhist Perspective 2. Greek Thought and the Distinction of Beings in Being 3. Plotinian Pantheism 4. Creation out of Nothing: God Participates Being to Creatures . - II. Some Pantheistic Perspectives in the Renaissance and the Modern Age, and their Relation to Scientific Thought. 1. Tommaso Campanella and Giordano Bruno 2. Baruch Spinoza 3. The “Absolute” Space of Isaac Newton . - III. The Presence of Pantheistic Traits in Some Views of Nature in Contemporary Science 1. The Gnosis of Princeton and Cosmic Neo-Vitalism

22. Pantheism pantheism is considered to be atheism by those who posit a transcendent and separate source of the world. Thus, many Christian theologians and philosophers http://skepdic.com/pantheism.html

Robert Todd Carroll SkepDic.com Click to order from Amazon pantheism Pantheism is the view that Nature and God are one, that the world is divine. Pantheism is considered to be atheism by those who posit a transcendent and separate source of the world. Thus, many Christian theologians and philosophers consider Hinduism and Buddhism, as well as the philosophy of Spinoza , to be atheistic. See also naturalism and god further reading " Pantheism " in the Catholic Encyclopedia Pantheism - Natural or Scientific - Paul Harrison Pantheism.net Robert Todd Carroll palmistry Last updated Web skepdic.com papyromancy

23. Christian Science Versus Pantheism Pastor Mary Baker Eddy s message in opposition to pantheism. http://www.mbeinstitute.org/Prose_Works/CSvsPantheism.html

Christian Science versus Pantheism by Mary Baker Eddy Pastor Emeritus of The First Church of Christ, Scientist Boston, and Author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Published by the Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy Boston, U.S.A. By Mary Baker G. Eddy Printed in the United States of America Christian Science versus Pantheism PASTOR'S MESSAGE TO THE MOTHER CHURCH, ON THE OCCASION OF THE JUNE COMMUNION, 1898 SUBJECT: Not Pantheism, but Christian Science BELOVED brethren, since last you gathered at the feast of our Passover, the winter winds have come and gone; the rushing winds of March have shrieked and hummed their hymns; the frown and smile of April, the laugh of May, have fled; and the roseate blush of joyous June is here and ours. In unctuous unison with nature, mortals are hoping and working, putting off outgrown, wornout, or soiled gar- ments - the pleasures and pains of sensation and the sackcloth of waiting - for the springtide of Soul. For what a man seeth he hopeth not for, but hopeth for what

24. Comparative Religion - Possible Difficulties In Pantheism This article surveys some possible difficulties in pantheism. http://www.comparativereligion.com/pantheism.html

Comparative religion main articles Ultimate Reality Human condition Salvation Nature of evil ... Conclusion Reincarnation articles Reincarnation in world religions Past-life recall Cosmic justice ... Reincarnation and Christianity Eastern religions articles Pantheism Samkhya Yoga Bhagavad Gita ... Buddhism Christianity vs. Eastern religions articles Avatars Other Saviors Eastern sayings Prodigal son ... Other websites Last modified: February 14, 2007 visitors: Possible difficulties in pantheism by Ernest Valea This and other similar articles address potential inconsistencies encountered by a certain religious view. While I see them as inconsistencies, for others they may pose no problem at all. For this reason, the articles are entitled "Possible difficulties in [this or that religion]" and not "Contradictions in [this or that religion]". Each of these articles is a list of possible difficulties with short comments aimed at encouraging critical thinking on each issue. The meaning of knowledge in pantheism Since the duality knower-known is an illusion in pantheism, what could be the meaning of knowledge in the case of the atman-Brahman identity? "Knowing" this identity cannot be a real epistemological process. S. Radhakrishnan states: "As the distinction between the highest self and the individual is one of false knowledge, we get rid of it by true knowledge." ( Indian Philosophy , vol. II, p. 622). This "true knowledge" corresponds to experiencing a pantheistic perspective on reality. To "know" Brahman is not equivalent to having a relationship with an external personal being. Therefore, a better term than that of knowing what Ultimate Reality really is, is that of

25. Pantheism If you love nature, if you see divinity in all things, then you could do with reading up on pantheism. Where the universe is equated with God; http://www.dpjs.co.uk/pan.html

Pantheism Description, Justification, Philosophies Satanism index page By Vexen Crabtree Read / Write Comments Paul Harrison is the founder and president of the World Pantheist Movement. He lives in Hampstead, London, making it a bit more relevant to this site. This page is here to describe what is my second favorite religion after Satanism; although I toyed with the idea of being a Pantheist I have found that I cannot. This page is a quick description of Pantheism and a comparison to its beliefs and to that of Satanism. Sources I was a member of and a small time contributor to the WPM mailing list. My other source of information is " Pantheism " by Paul Harrison. James Lovelock Born 1919. "Canadian atmospheric chemist, inventor and environmental theorist. An independent scientist who lives in Cornwall [England], Lovelock cooperated with NASA in their space programme, advising on ways of looking for life on Mars. Lovelock's influence on the green movement stems from his portrayal of the Earth's biosphere as a complex, self-regulating, living 'being', which he named Gaia (at the suggestion of the novelist William Golding). Although the Gaia hypothesis extends the ecological idea by applying it to the Eart as an ecosystem and offers a holistic approach to nature, Lovelock supports technology and industrialization and is an opponent of 'back to nature' mysticism and ideas such as Earth worship. His major writings include Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth (1979) and The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of our Living Earth

26. AN INTRODUCTION TO PANTHEISM pantheism is the view that the natural universe is divine, the proper object of reverence; or the view that the natural universe is pervaded with divinity. http://www.wku.edu/~jan.garrett/panthesm.htm

AN INTRODUCTION TO PANTHEISM by Jan Garrett Contents What is Pantheism? Pantheism and Western Monotheism Differences With Western Monotheism Pantheism and Personal Divinity ... For Further Information about Pantheism What is pantheism? Pantheism is the view that the natural universe is divine, the proper object of reverence; or the view that the natural universe is pervaded with divinity. Negatively, it is the idea that we do not need to look beyond the universe for the proper object of ultimate respect. Paul Harrison writes, When we say that the cosmos is divine, we mean it with just as much conviction and emotion as believers say that their god is God. But we are not making a metaphysical statement that is beyond proof or disproof. We are making an ethical statement that means no more, and no less, than this: We should relate to the universe in the same way as believers in God relate to God. That is, with humility, awe, reverence, celebration and the search for deeper understanding. ("Divine Cosmos, Sacred Earth," from Harrison's Scientific Pantheism website.) One of the chief clues to understanding modern pantheism is its consistent refusal to engage in anthropomorphism. "Anthropomorphism" here means the practice of attributing familiar human qualities to objects outside us when there is no good evidence that they have such qualities.

27. Pantheism Several articles on pantheism. A source of information for deeper understanding of religious subjects. http://mb-soft.com/believe/txc/pantheis.htm

Pantheism General Information Pantheism is the belief that everything is divine, that God is not separate from but totally identified with the world, and that God does not possess personality or transcendence. Pantheism generally can be traced to two sources. The first is the Vedic tradition (Hinduism), which begins with the belief that the divine principle from which everything arises is a unity and that the perception of multiplicity is illusory and unreal. In the Vedanta, Brahman is the infinite reality behind the illusory and imperfect world of perception. Our knowledge is imperfect because we experience subject and object as distinct. When subject and object are equated, however, all distinctions are eliminated and we know Brahman. In the Western tradition the cosmology of the Stoics and, more importantly, the emanationist hierarchy of Neoplatonism tend toward pantheism. In Judeo - Christian thought the emphasis on the transcendence of God inhibits pantheism. Nevertheless, a form of pantheism is found in the thought of the medieval scholastic John Scotus Erigena, who viewed the universe as a single, all - inclusive system with various simultaneous stages. The most important modern version of pantheism is that of Baruch Spinoza. For him nature is infinite, but because the only being capable of genuine infinity is God, God must be identical, in essence, with nature. In the 18th and 19th centuries the various forms of Idealism sometimes tended toward pantheism, often in the form of a theory of cosmic evolution.

28. Paths To Pantheism Within the vast range of philosophical and religious choices offered throughout the history of Homo sapient thought, pantheism is probably the oldest, http://www.paxdoraunlimited.com/PathsToPantheism.html

This site is a member of WebRing. To browse visit Here Autobiographies and Deconversion Stories NEXT PAGE: Ezella Kay The Road out of Arcadia by Mark E. Foley, Arcadia, Florida Raised in an extreme American fundamentalist family, he found it more and more difficult to accept his maternal religion and in light of personal experiences with self-acceptance, he discovered a more honest approach to reality TRUTH. This one word holds some of the greatest implications for the history of humanity. "What is truth?" is probably the most fundamental question and quest within a human being’s life. Its answers are never easy, never fully revealed, and always extremely personalized. However, groups do manage to form, wherein people of similar, logical minds regarding the truth of this reality we live in, begin to develop a communal bond amongst themselves and a much-needed sense of acceptance and belonging. Within the vast range of philosophical and religious choices offered throughout the history of Homo sapient thought, Pantheism is probably the oldest, most basic and visceral of all

29. What Is Pantheism? What is pantheism? What religions today are considered to be pantheistic? http://www.gotquestions.org/pantheism.html

What is pantheism? Question: "What is pantheism?" Answer: Pantheism is the view that God is everything and everyone - and that everyone and everything is God. Pantheism is similar to polytheism (the belief in many gods), but goes beyond polytheism to teach that everything is God. A tree is God, a rock is God, an animal is God, the sky is God, the sun is God, you are God, etc., etc. Pantheism is the presupposition behind many cults and false religions (i.e. Hinduism and Buddhism to an extent, the various unity and unification cults, mother nature worshippers, etc.) Does the Bible teach pantheism? No, it does not. What many people confuse as pantheism is the doctrine of God's omnipresence. Psalms 139:7-8 declares, "Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there." God's omnipresence means He is present everywhere. There is no place in the universe where God is not present. This is not the same thing as Pantheism. God is everywhere, but He is not everything. Yes, God is "present" inside a tree and inside a person, but that does not make that tree or person God. Pantheism is not at all a Biblical belief. Pantheism is incompatible with faith in Jesus Christ as the Savior (John 14:6; Acts 4:12). Recommended Resource: Jesus Among Other gods by Ravi Zacharias Related Topics: What is atheism?

30. What Is Pantheism? - Pantheist Association For Nature What is pantheism Definition of pantheism - a religion that kindles a sunbright spiritual relationship with Nature - by the Pantheist Association for http://home.utm.net/pan/whatis.html

@import "pan.css"; Pantheism is a religion that kindles a sunbright spiritual relationship with Nature Introduction Additional Definitions The God of Pantheism Varieties of Pantheism Introduction The word Pantheism comes from two Greek words "pan" = all + "theos" = god . In Pantheism, "all is god." Many Pantheists define "god" as Nature and its creative forces . God and Nature are one in the same. In contrast, many Monotheists (from "mono" = one+ "theos" = god) define "god" as a supernatural individual. God and Nature are separated. To identify god with Nature, rather than with a hallowed personage, seems odd to those unfamiliar with Pantheism. But actually Monotheism is less common than Pantheism in the history of religion. For tens of thousands of years, humans viewed the Earth as a sacred place with divinity everywhere. Religious scholar Denise Carmody notes "The oldest God is nature...in the beginning, human beings sensed that their habitat was sacred. With twists and turns and numberless permutations, they played out this primal intuition." Modern Pantheism revivifies our species' gene-deep intuition that the Earth is indeed holy. Divinity infuses the world, the skies, the seas, the rocks, the trees, the animals, and ourselves. Pantheism gives perspective to all we do and instills a reverence for Nature which can help reverse the ecological crises of our times.

31. Pantheism - Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia pantheism is the belief that God and the universe are equivalent (the same thing.) A Pantheist believes that everything that exists is a part of God, http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism

Pantheism From the Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can change Jump to: navigation search Pantheism is the belief that God and the universe are equivalent (the same thing.) A Pantheist believes that everything that exists is a part of God, and that God is nothing more than everything that exists. Pantheism is an important part of many eastern religions such as Hinduism and Taoism Some western philosophers such as Baruch Spinoza and scientists like Albert Einstein and Stephen Hawking are Pantheists. Some Christians Jews and Muslims are Pantheists. However, their majority believes that while God is in everything, there is more to God than just the universe. (This belief is called Panentheism change Other websites Hindu Wisdom Universal Pantheist Society Home Page Scientific Pantheism site Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry ... Pantheist Prophet: Henry David Thoreau by Harold W. Wood, Jr This short article can be made longer. You can help Wikipedia by adding to it Retrieved from " http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism Category Religion Views Page Talk Change this page History Personal tools Log in / create account Getting around Main Page Community portal Simple talk New changes ... Give to Wikipedia Search Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages ... Cite this page In other languages Afrikaans Bosanski Catal  Česky ... T¼rk§e This page was last changed on 11 May 2008, at 16:30.

32. Mereological Ontological Arguments And Pantheism Philosophical disagreement with pantheism. Based on the Pantheist definition of God. http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/graham_oppy/panth.html

Library Modern Documents Graham Oppy : Mereological Ontological Arguments and Pantheism Mereological Ontological Arguments and Pantheism (19) Graham Oppy Mereological ontological arguments areas the name suggestsontological arguments which draw on the resources of mereology, i.e. the theory of the part-whole relation. An instance of arguments of this kind is the following: 1. I exist. (Premise, contingent a priori 2. (Hence) Somei.e. least onething exists. (From 1) 3. Whenever some things exist, there is some thing of which they are all parts. (Premise, from mereology) 4. (Hence) There is exactly one thing of which every thing is a part. (From 2, 3) 5. The unique thing of which every thing is a part is God. (Definition, pantheism) 6. (Hence) God exists. (From 4, 5) The status of premise 1 is controversial: friends of two-dimensional modal logic (and others) will be reluctant to grant that the proposition that I exist is both contingent and knowable a priori (even by me). Instead, they will insist that all that I know a priori is that the sentence "I exist" expresses some true proposition or other when I token it. But, of course, even that will suffice for the purposes of the argument. Provided that I know

33. Pantheism pantheism Discover the basis and foundation for this religious viewpoint. Discover how it compares with other views of God. http://www.allabouthistory.org/pantheism-faq.htm

Pantheism You are here: History Learn about Polytheism! Pantheism What is Pantheism? The word "pantheism," like many theological words, comes from the Greek language. Pan means "all" or "everything" and Theos means "god." So, pantheism is the belief that everything somehow is a part of god. Our galaxy, the stars, our solar system, all living things, all thoughts, all people, everything is part of who or what god is. Much of the pantheistic view can be summed up in the statement, "All is god, and god is all." Although a form of the word "Pantheism" was first used in English in 1705, its roots go far back into antiquity. Many current religious and philosophical systems that have their basis in Pantheism include Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Freemasonry, Hinduism, Occultism, Taoism, and the New Age movement. These are based on three broad types of Pantheism. Materialistic Pantheism holds that the material universe is all that exists - there is nothing else. Our thoughts, feelings, hopes, dreams, and aspirations are nothing more than biochemical reactions occurring in the cells of the brain, glands, and organs. We are nothing but organic machines. In addition, since nothing but matter exists there was no one or nothing to create this matter. Thus matter must be eternal. "God" is just another name for the material universe. This form of Pantheism has more in common with atheism than with other forms of theism. Idealistic Pantheism teaches that just as the human soul or mind resides in the human body, the universal soul or mind (i.e. god) resides in the physical universe. God infuses, works through, and expresses the divine essence through the material world. Ultimate reality is found, therefore, not in the material world, but in the spiritual world. Some go so far as to say that the physical world is merely an illusion - either god's or mine - in which I play my part. The sum of all thoughts and feelings is therefore "god."

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35. Pantheism pantheism, the personal feeling that everything is or contains God, and God is everything or all. The concept that God is immanent in all things is one of http://www.themystica.com/mystica/articles/p/pantheism.html

Back to Home Page or Contents Page or Past and present beliefs or Index Pantheism P antheism, the personal feeling that everything is or contains God, and God is everything or all. The concept that God is immanent in all things is one of the oldest intuitions found in humankind. However, pantheism never developed into a formal doctrine. The earliest evidence of pantheism is found on Brahmanism, the oldest existing religion, in the Vedas, dating back to 1000 BC. It is associated with the Egyptian religion when Ra Isis and Osiris were identified with all existence. Many philosophical scholars think the great Greek philosopher Parmanides was a pantheist as well as Plotinus, Erigen, and Spinoza. The sentiment or belief in pantheism have predominantly influenced the thoughts and works of many poets, philosophers, mystics, and extremely spiritual people. Notably among pantheistic poets are Goethe, Coleridge, Wordsworth and Emerson. Many modern poets consider pantheism existing in their world-view. A.G.H.

36. Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Pantheism - Wikisource The name pantheist was introduced by John Toland (16701722) in his Socinianism truly Stated (1705), while pantheism was first used by his opponent Fay in http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia_(1913)/Pantheism

Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Pantheism From Wikisource Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) Jump to: navigation search St. Pantaleon Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) by multiple editors Pantheism Onofrio Panvinio (From Greek pan , all; theos , god). The view according to which God and the world are one. The name pantheist was introduced by John Toland (1670-1722) in his "Socinianism truly Stated" (1705), while pantheism was first used by his opponent Fay in "Defensio Religionis" (1709). Toland published his "Pantheisticon" in 1732. The doctrine itself goes back to the early Indian philosophy; it appears during the course of history in a great variety of forms, and it enters into or draws support from so many other systems that, as Professor Flint says ("Antitheistic Theories", 334), "there is probably no pure pantheism". Taken in the strictest sense, i.e. as identifying God and the world, Pantheism is simply Atheism. In any of its forms it involves Monism (q.v.), but the latter is not necessarily pantheistic. Emanationism (q.v.) may easily take on a pantheistic meaning and as pointed out in the Encyclical, "Pascendi dominici gregis" the same is true of the modern doctrine of immanence (q.v.). VARIETIES These agree in the fundamental doctrine that beneath the apparent diversity and multiplicity of things in the universe there is one only being absolutely necessary, eternal, and infinite. Two questions then arise: What is the nature of this being? How are the manifold appearances to be explained? The principal answers are incorporated in such different earlier systems as Brahminism, Stoicism, Neo-Platonism, and Gnosticism, and in the later systems of Scotus Eriugena and Giordano Bruno (qq.v.).

37. Pantheism The Pantheist Credo - Commentary By Paul Harrison Scientific pantheism is called scientific not because it claims to be a science, but because it adopts a scientific approach to reality to complement its http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~harrison/maninote.htm

38. Pantheism To lay the preliminary groundwork we need to establish what is pantheism. By its very etymology the term pantheism signifies that the universe (everything http://www.tecmalta.org/tft131.htm

Pantheism A definition of Pantheism To lay the preliminary groundwork we need to establish what is pantheism. By its very etymology the term Pantheism signifies that the universe (everything - pan - that exists) is God, and God is the universe. This is both the popular idea attached to the term and also a formal definition often given of it. The aggregate of individual things is God. The three principal forms in which Pantheism is propagated and taught is as follows: 1. That which ascribes to the Infinite and Universal Being, the attributes (to a certain extent at least) of both mind and matter, namely, thought and extension. 2. That which ascribes to it only the attributes of matter, what we may call materialistic Pantheism. 3. That which ascribes to it only the attributes of spirit, or idealistic Pantheism. The main tenets of Pantheism It may readily be assumed then that Pantheism holds the following: The Infinite God has no existence before or out of the world. The world is, therefore, not only consubstantial, but co-eternal with God. The created order is identified with God; God, matter and whatever else there is are taken together in one lump, mixed together and referred to as one entity. An distinction between Maker and made things cease to exist because they are all one and the same. Naturally such a stance precluded the idea of creation. At best the biblical doctrine of creation is relegated to something far different: some Pantheists maintain that whatever is is an eternal and necessary process. (Modern Process Theology comes under the same indictment since it depicts God as changing and progressing).

39. Pantheism - Definitions From Dictionary.com The belief that God, or a group of gods, is identical with the whole natural world; pantheism comes from Greek roots meaning “belief that everything is a http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pantheism

SafeAddOnload(_init_luna); SafeAddOnload(show_sp); var pid = 467396; var nid = 467438; var mid = 711389; var word = 'pantheism'; SafeAddOnload(init_near); Register Log In Help Dictionary ... The Web Advertisement 7 results for: pantheism Browse Nearby Entries pantetheinase pantetheine pantethine ... panth©on fran§ais pantheism Pantheist Pantheistic pantheistical pantheistically ... Share This pan·the·ism Audio Help ˈp¦n θiˌɪz əm Pronunciation Key Show Spelled Pronunciation pan -thee-iz- uh m Pronunciation Key Show IPA Pronunciation –noun the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature. any religious belief or philosophical doctrine that identifies God with the universe. [Origin: < F panth©isme. See pan- theism —Related forms pan·the·ist, noun pan·the·is·tic, pan·the·is·ti·cal, adjective pan·the·is·ti·cal·ly, adverb Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) pantheism To learn more about pantheism visit Britannica.com

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