pantheism

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That step might possibly be in the direction of pantheism, though, according to Driesch,[11] pantheism is the doctrine "that reality is a something which makes itself ('_dieu se fait_,' in the words of Bergson), whilst theism would be any theory according to which the manifoldness of material reality is predetermined in an immaterial way."

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  1. noun A doctrine identifying the Deity with the universe and its phenomena.
  2. noun Belief in and worship of all gods.

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  • The basis of Bray's philosophy was idealism and pantheism, assuming form under the influence of modern science. —  George Eliot; A Critical Study of Her Life, Writings and Philosophy
  • This belief of the New Age Movement and the Mind Science cults is known as pantheism, and basically teaches that just as many drops of water together become the ocean, so we all together become God consciousness. —  Apprising Ministries
  • This pantheism was considered blasphemous by the religious and political authorities of his day. —  Pharyngula
  • That step might possibly be in the direction of pantheism, though, according to Driesch,[11] pantheism is the doctrine "that reality is a something which makes itself ('_dieu se fait_,' in the words of Bergson), whilst theism would be any theory according to which the manifoldness of material reality is predetermined in an immaterial way." —  Science and Morals and Other Essays
  • When the powers of nature are held predominant in the minds of the philosophers through whose cogitations this evolution of theism is carried on, pantheism, as the highest form of psychotheism, is the final result; but when the moral qualities are held in highest regard in the minds of the men in whom this process of evolution is carried on, monotheism_, or a god whose essential characteristics are moral qualities, is the final product. —  Sketch of the Mythology of the North American Indians First Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1879-80, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1881, pages 17-56
 

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  1. = French panthéisme = Spanish panteismo = Portuguese pantheismo =Italian panteismo, from New Latin *pantheismus, from Greek πᾶς (παν-), all, + θεύς, God: see theism.
 

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/ˈpænθəɪzm/
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