pantheist

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  1. One who holds the doctrine of pantheism; one who believes that God and the universe are identical. He [John Toland] printed a Latin Tract, intitled “Pantheisticon: sive Formula celebrandæ Sodalitatis Socraticæ.” … That Formula … is written by way of Dialogue between the President of a Philosophical Society and the Members of it. … These Philosophers … are Pantheists and consequently acknowledge no other God than the Universe. Life of Toland (1722), prefixed to his Misc. Works [(J. Whiston, London, 1747.).

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  • You may call her what you will—Pagan, pantheist, transcendentalist mystic and worshipper of earth, she slips from all your formulas. —  The Three Brontes
  • Thoreau was an American sansculotte , a believer in the natural man; Ripley was mainly a socialist; Margaret Fuller was one of the earliest leaders in woman's rights; Alcott was a Neo-Platonist, a vegetarian, and a non-resistant; while Emerson sympathized largely with Thoreau, and from his poetic exaltation of Nature was looked upon as a pantheist by those who were not accustomed to nice discriminations. —  The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • We have no space to follow the reasoning by which Diderot supports this scornful estimate of the famous thinker, of whom it can never be settled whether he be pantheist, atheist, akosmist, or God-intoxicated man. —  Diderot and the Encyclopaedists (Vol 1 of 2)
  • Pattison he describes as a conservative agnostic or pantheist, meaning by 'conservative' a man who thought it better to preserve old forms. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • I'm sure Mr. Schwartz and his ilk would have a different opinion if it was a Muslim trying to lure the child to a mosque, a Wiccan trying to lure the child to a festival, a Jew trying to lure the child to a synagogue, or a pantheist trying to lure the child to a meeting to be convinced of the divinity of Zeus and Poseiden. —  HeraldNet.com Local, Sports, Business and Entertainment News
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  1. = French panthéiste = Spanish panteista = Portuguese pantheista = Italian panteista, from New Latin *pantheista, from Greek πᾶς (παν-), all, + θεὀς, God: see theist.
 

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