41. Glossary Of Terms: Pa pantheism is the philosophical outlook which identifies God with Nature, rather than seeing Nature as having been created or controlled by God. http://www.marxists.org/glossary/terms/p/a.htm

MIA Encyclopedia of Marxism : Glossary of Terms Pa Pacifism Pacifism is the absolute rejection of the use of violence on moral grounds. Some pacifists will sanction the use of personal violence in some circumstances, but in general it is absolute. The term was coined by Emile Arnaud at the 10th Universal Peace Conference in 1902. Panamas A derrogitory term denoting corruption and manipulation. The word began use toward the end of the nineteenth century with a French company, the Society for the Building of the Panama Canal. Its financial dealings included the swindling of small investors and the bribing of cabinet ministers, deputies, and judges. After its bankruptcy, American speculators bought up most of the stock. In 1903 the United States, failing to reach an agreement with Colombia, pushed a staged-revolution in Panama. With the new government in power, construction of the Panama Canal started in 1904 and was completed ten years later. Pantheism Pantheism is the philosophical outlook which identifies God with Nature , rather than seeing Nature as having been created or controlled by God. For

42. Pantheism pantheism Philosophy of Time Metaphysics Philosophy of Language pantheism. Papers are listed chronologically, starting with the most recent. http://www.qsmithwmu.com/pantheism.htm

Home PAINTINGS Poetry Publications ... Religion Atheism Pantheism Philosophy of Time Metaphysics Philosophy of Language Mind Consciousness ... Links You can search this site: Published Papers by Quentin Smith, Philosophy Professor, on Pantheism Papers are listed chronologically, starting with the most recent. Naturalistic Pantheism (1997) Conclusion to Language and Time An Analysis of Holiness (1988)

43. Pantheism pantheism is a metaphysical and religious position. Broadly defined it is the view that (1) God is everything and everything is God the world is either http://www.seop.leeds.ac.uk/archives/fall1998/entries/pantheism/

This is a file in the archives of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy A B C D ... Z Pantheism The book recognized as containing the most complete attempt at explaining and defending pantheism from a philosophical perspective is Spinoza's Ethics , finished in 1675 two years before his death. In 1720 John Toland wrote the Pantheisticon: or The Form of Celebrating the Socratic-Society in Latin. He (possibly) coined the term "pantheist" and used it as a synonym for "Spinozist." However, aside from some interesting pantheistic sounding slogans (like "Every Thing is to All, as All is to Every Thing"), and despite promising "A short Dissertation upon a Two-fold philosophy of the Pantheists" Toland's work has little to do with pantheism. Pantheism and Atheism Is Pantheism Atheistic? Unity Misunderstandings ... Related Entries Pantheism and Theism Where pantheism is considered as an alternative Not all of the problems generated by the theistic notion of God are also problems for pantheism. But given a suitable reformulation, some of them will be. And, as expected, pantheism will also generate some difficulties peculiar to itself. Thus, although evil and creation do not present identical problems for pantheism and the theism, and may even be inherent to theism; it may also be possible to reformulate them in a way that makes them applicable to pantheism. There may be pantheistic counterparts to the problem of evil and other classical theistic problems, and perhaps they can be resolved by pantheism.

44. Pantheism: Blogs, Photos, Videos And More On Technorati These are the two most wellestablished religions founded on the concept of pantheism. Obviously, there are many that follow the tenets of these religions. http://technorati.com/tag/pantheism

Today in photos Join Sign in Help ... Small Business Up Entertainment Main TV Music ... Gaming Up Lifestyle Main Autos Family ... Travel Up Politics Sports Main Football Up Technology Main Gadgets IT Up Blogs Photos Videos Blogger Central ... Developers Up 155 posts tagged pantheism Subscribe Posts Blogs Photos Videos search in entire post tags only of blogs with any authority a little authority some authority a lot of authority in language all languages Arabic (العربية) Chinese (中文) Dutch (Nederlands) English French (Fran§ais) German (Deutsch) Greek (Ελληνικά) Hebrew (עברית) Italian (Italiano) Japanese (日本語) Korean (한국어) Norwegian (Norsk) Persian (فارسی) Polish (Polski) Portuguese (Portuguªs) Russian (Русский) Spanish (Espa±ol) Swedish (Svenska) Turkish (T¼rk§e) Vietnamese (Tiếng Việt) Related tags: philosophy If only there was a Scarlet P... http://noreckoning.blogspot.com/ 2008/ 05/ if-only-there-was-scarlet-p.html So I've been meaning to write this for a few months now, ever since I put up the Scarlet "A" for atheism but got sidetracked by assignments and other pursuits to write what needed to be written. Why write anything, you ask? Aren't I an atheist? I write a lot about it, so what gives? Well, technically, I'm not an atheist. 7 days ago in The Reckoner Authority: 1 And then I realized that God just loved me the way I was Jay Bakker says that God loves homosexuality. Jay is Emergent. He is a poster boy for what the lusts of the flesh can produce. He came to the conclusion that God told him that homosexuality is not sin. Jay is the pastor of a nightclub church in NYC, so he is well versed in scripture.

45. Tocqueville: Book I Chapter 1 It cannot be denied that pantheism has made great progress in our age. The writings of a part of Europe bear visible marks of it the Germans introduce it http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/DETOC/ch1_07.htm

Chapter VII WHAT CAUSES DEMOCRATIC NATIONS TO INCLINE TOWARDS PANTHEISM I SHALL show hereafter how the preponderant taste of a democratic people for very general ideas manifests itself in politics, but I wish to point out at present its principal effect on philosophy. It cannot be denied that pantheism has made great progress in our age. The writings of a part of Europe bear visible marks of it: the Germans introduce it into philosophy, and the French into literature. Most of the works of imagination published in France contain some opinions or some tinge caught from pantheistic doctrines or they disclose some tendency to such doctrines in their authors. This appears to me not to proceed only from an accidental, but from a permanent cause. When the conditions of society are becoming more equal and each individual man becomes more like all the rest, more weak and insignificant, a habit grows up of ceasing to notice the citizens and considering only the people, of overlooking individuals to think only of their kind. At such times the human mind seeks to embrace a multitude of different objects at once, and it constantly strives to connect a variety of consequences with a single cause. The idea of unity so possesses man and is sought by him so generally that if he thinks he has found it, he readily yields himself to repose in that belief. Not content with the discovery that there is nothing in the world but a creation and a Creator, he is still embarrassed by this primary division of things and seeks to expand and simplify his conception by including God and the universe in one great whole.

46. Christian Ecology - Recovering Christian Pantheism As The Lost Gospel Of Creatio I have titled my talk Recovering Christian pantheism as a Lost Gospel of Creation. pantheism is the branch of philosophy and theology that perceives the http://www.christianecology.org/ConsiderLillies.html

Fund for Christian Ecology Recovering Christian Pantheism as the Lost Gospel of Creation A presentation by Bernard Zaleha to Boise Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on April 20, 1997. (Bernard Zaleha is a member of the Boise Unitarian Universalist Fellowship and local environmental attorney) Preliminary Readings When I was thirteen, I went backpacking for the first time, and in so doing, accidentally became a mystic. I say it was accidental, because I was not on any intentional vision or mystic quest. But nonetheless, the spirit of life that I encountered in the wilderness touched me in a deep way that my rational self still struggles to understand. I have never been the same. That early experience led me in my early teens to reject the Christian fundamentalism of my upbringing and immediately thereafter to replace that faith with Thoreauvian Transcendentalism, which in due course of time led me to become a Unitarian Universalist some 20 years ago. My early nature experiences ultimately put me on a path of pursuing environmentalism as my career. I have been an environmental activist for the last sixteen years, and experience has been disheartening. Instead of making progress, we are, by and large, losing the war. What limited legislative gains were made in the early seventies are constantly being eroded. The rate of destruction is accelerating. And with few exceptions, the public at large seems generally disinterested. And there seems to be a growing acceptance in the general public, especially in rural states like Idaho, that the greatest intentionally caused extinction spasm in history of the planet, is simply a necessary and acceptable price for maintaining our modern lifestyle. All of this has led me to the belief that our crisis is primarily a moral crisis, not a political one.

47. Pantheism Scientific pantheism an empirical religion for the Third Millennium a superb site, informative aesthetically appealing - by Paul Harrison http://www.kheper.net/topics/worldviews/pantheism.htm

Kheper Home World Views Home Topics Index Esotericism ... Guestbook Pantheism Pantheism, - from the Greek pan - "all"; and theos , "God" - is the doctrine that this material world is no different from God, that "all (this is) God". The universe , and all beings in it, are the real manifestation or transformation of God This was an idea developed by the ancient Greek school of philosophy known as Stoicism (founded by Zeno of Citium (335-263 B.C.E.), who lectured from a porch - "stoa" - hence the name of his school). In a curious presaging of modern quantum physics, the Stoics asserted that the entire cosmos was made from one element, fire (= energy). God was of the nature of subtle fire, and the physical fire, from which the rest of the elements formed, was a condensation of God's being. Thus, the whole cosmos is the condensation of God, "in whom we live and move and have our being". (Later, Paul of Tarsus was to take this Stoic saying out of context and apply it to his Christianity Another famous pantheist was the seventeenth century Spanish Jewish-born philosopher Baruch Spinoza , who in his Ethics , argued that there is only one reality, one universal substance, that he called " God ", and that mind and matter (as elaborated in Descartes

48. EcoSpirit - Pantheism pantheism is a philosophy that allows us to relate emotionally, intellectually and physically to Nature, to understand our place in the Universe and to http://users.tinyworld.co.uk/david.hand1/ecospirit/pantheism.htm

Home Pantheism - Our Ancestors Solar Cycles ... Free counter Pantheism "Nature is more than just our hotel or meal ticket. It is not just something we need to look after for our own self-interest. Nature is sacred."* Pantheism is a philosophy that allows us to relate emotionally, intellectually and physically to Nature, to understand our place within the Universe and to satisfy our spiritual needs without abandoning reason or common sense. Pantheism regards the Universe as a whole as worthy of the deepest reverence, perceives Nature as divine and promotes a path that honours, reveres and, of necessity, cares for the natural world which is itself a unity of inextricably linked living beings, a complex and quite wonderful web of life. Why is Nature worthy of such reverence? As a belief system, pantheism is not monolithic. It takes on many forms. Many pantheists, though, would agree on the following: *Harrison (2004) and De Quincey (2002) respectively. See the resources page for full details of all sources. contact(at)ecospirit(dot)info

49. Guide To Reality: A Look At Pantheism So, what about pantheism? pantheism is the idea that God is identical with nature or the universe, or alternatively God is a ubiquitous force or presence http://guidetoreality.blogspot.com/2005/07/look-at-pantheism.html

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50. Pantheism Definition, Usage And Pronunciation - YourDictionary.com pantheism definition, words related to pantheism, proper usage and pronunciation of the word pantheism from YourDictionary.com. http://www.yourdictionary.com/pantheism

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51. Pantheism People and Society Spirituality and Religion pantheism listings. http://www.joeant.com/DIR/cat/15802/Pantheism

Add URL Become an Editor MyAnthill login ... Suggest Your Website - Guaranteed review within the next two business days. (One Time Fee - $39.99) Directory People and Society Spirituality and Religion ~ Pantheism Pantheism 1 - of World Pantheist Movement Dedicated to the promotion of natural/scientific pantheism in all states and over 50 countries. Active with many regional and specialized email lists, forums and bulletin boards including environment, politics and personal relationships. Reviewed by BertRay pantheism.net Information Pantheist Association for Nature PAN presents its views through on-going articles about sharing Pantheism and caring for nature and offers other supporting activities. Reviewed by BertRay home.utm.net Information Symbiotic Panentheism An interpretation of Pantheism presented by its author and supported by a library which includes his writings. Offers competitive activities. Reviewed by darbel panentheism.com Information Universal Pantheist Society Membership organization presents an overview of Pantheistic beliefs. Offers a discussion forum and quarterly publication, Pantheist Vision. Reviewed by BertRay pantheist.net Information

52. HERE-NOW4U :Bosch, Lourens Peter Van Den :Theosophy Or Pantheism? HERENOW4U World Philosophers Meet 96 Theosophy or pantheism? Friedrich Max Müller s Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion by Lourens Peter van den Bosch. http://www.here-now4u.de/ENG/theosophy_or_pantheism__friedr.htm

Tracks Across Time Into The 21st Century Theosophy or Pantheism? Friedrich Max Müller's Gifford Lectures on Natural Religion Lourens Peter van den Bosch Introduction The philosophy of religion as taught by Max Müller in his Gifford lectures belongs to the most neglected part of his work. This neglect shows the posthumous decline in the twentieth century, which sharply contrasts with the fame Müller received during his life. One may ask oneself whether this is deserved, because many of his ideas are still highly interesting. Nowadays he is best remembered for his scholarly edition of the Rigveda with the commentary of Sayana (1849-1874) and for his edition of the Sacred Books of the East Moreover, his contributions to the science of religion have been of such vital importance for the acknowledgement of this study as an academic discipline, that he is generally regarded as the founder of the comparative study of religion. This notwithstanding the fact that many of his ideas are outdated, amongst others, on account of their evolutionistic orientation. However, dry as dust as Müller's work on philosophy and religion may seem to the modern reader

53. 93. The Higher Pantheism By Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Nicholson & Lee, Eds. 1917. T 93. The Higher pantheism by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Nicholson Lee, eds. 1917. The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse. http://www.bartleby.com/236/93.html

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54. Spirituality & Religion: World Pantheism Group On Care2 World pantheism IS NATURE YOUR SPIRITUAL HOME? Do you feel a deep sense of peace, belonging and wonder in the midst of nature, in a forest, by the ocean, http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/Pantheism

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55. Pantheism (letter) Letters pantheism (letter) Fr G.H. Duggan Letters New Mass (letter) - Kevin Beck Letters Lourdes appeal (letter) - Jenny Davies http://www.ad2000.com.au/articles/2003/aug2003p16_1416.html

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57. LOGOS  Pantheism LOGOS pantheism is not atheism because it holds there is a meaning to the universe, even a destiny. We came from somewhere, and our existence has meaning. http://www.logospantheism.org/

www. logospantheism.org LOGOS PANTHEISM How should we understand the meaning of “God”? Traditionally, God has been pictured as in Michelangelo’s painting, The Creation of Adam: an old man with a flowing beard having immense powers. The Bible tells us: “Then God said: Let Us make man in Our image, after our likeness,..” (Genesis 1:26), which makes clear that the Biblical authors thought of God in human terms. Later thought became more sophisticated, so that God is now considered an all-pervading Spirit that infuses Nature. Is this interpretation correct? When we look into the heart of matter at the atomic level we find no certainty, only probability, even in principle. To have certainty we must have higher levels of mass, so that at our human level we can make predictions with precision knowing Newton ’s equations. If a spiritual existence and mass are incompatible, and it is mass that gives certainty, how can there be a role for any spirit? Perhaps there is a role other than to affect events, and the question is not meant to deny spiritual existence; only to question its influence on the material universe.

58. Pantheism Section Of FAQ Misrepresents Pantheism Trene Valdrek (Reply) (7-00) I just have a few questions regarding your FAQ section on pantheism. As a Pantheist I noted several things that were completely at odds with what I and many http://www.positiveatheism.org/mail/eml9589.htm

Browse: About New Previous Next Return to Letters Index Home to Positive Atheism Pantheism Section Of FAQ Misrepresents Pantheism Trene Valdrek Reference: Pantheism or Naturalistic Religion See also: The Semantic Dance Of Pantheism from John Love-Jensen See also: Regarding The Semantic Dance Of Pantheism from Johan Grahn From: "Trene Valdrek" To: "Positive Atheism" <editor@positiveatheism.org> Subject: I like your site, but I have a few questions :) Date: Sunday, July 23, 2000 9:29 AM First let me say, I totally respect your opinion and your right to (dis)believe whatever you want. I hope you don't think I'm trying to convert you to anything with this email. I just have a few questions regarding your FAQ section on Pantheism. As a Pantheist I noted several things that were completely at odds with what I and many of my Pantheist friends believe. My biggest problem is how you label all Pantheists as "they." You seem to alternate between "some pantheists" and just "pantheists." Pantheism is more complex than "thinking of the universe as a god" and there are Scientific Pantheists, Pagan Pantheists, etc. I think you should preface your Pantheism section with a clearer definition. i.e. "if Pantheism means this, then..." Again, I can only speak for myself as an individual and I would like to respond to your Pantheist section as just some guy with an opinion :)

59. Pantheism pantheism comes from Greek roots meaning belief that everything is a god. We believe that everything in nature is god as a whole and that every thing is a http://c.webring.com/t/Pantheism

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60. Ancient Earth Religions - Pantheism Every religion has had its pantheists. pantheism is the perennial religion, which continually emerges from all transcendental or idealist religions. http://www.xploreheartlinks.com/pantheism.htm

Xploring Our Heart Links Ancient Earth Religions Pantheism Pantheism: A History by Paul Harrison Pantheism is the belief that the universe and nature are divine. Every religion has had its pantheists. Pantheism is the perennial religion, which continually emerges from all transcendental or idealist religions. In addition people in every religion have seen God in nature, whether they formally express that identity or not. Examples include Shaftsbury, Rousseau, and many poets from Wordsworth to Robinson Jeffers. Pantheism has taken many diverse forms. Strict or scientific pantheism holds that God and the material universe are identical. Its first adherents were the Greek materialist Heraclitus, the Chinese Taoist Chuang Tzu, and the Stoic philosopher Zeno of Cittium. Later proponents have included the Christian David of Dinant, the neo-Confucian Chang Tsai, and the author of these pages, Paul Harrison. Taoism is a form of materialist pantheism, as are some types of Mahayan Buddhism. There have been many other types of pantheism. All of them identify God in some way with what is considered most fundamental in the Universe. Some pantheisms are idealistic or world-negating - believing that the visible world is unreal or an illusion, masking an underlying unity. These include the Eleatic school of Xenophanes and Parmenides, the Upanishads, and most schools of Mahayana Buddhism.

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