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Definition of pantheism:

  • (noun) (rare) worship that admits or tolerates all gods
  • (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

Sentence Examples:

The scientific conception of the universe, the very opposite of materialism, approaches pantheism.

Hence, two other principles concerning the finite, quite antagonistic to those of pantheism.

A form of pantheism known in the philosophy of Averroes soon became a center of skepticism.

I recommend him especially to be violent against the philosophers, and to bark at pantheism.

Negative judgments form a considerable part of the wealth of our understanding; pantheism destroys them.

There is no real possibility of getting out of pantheism any special impulse to moral action.

His pantheism was fairly deduced from the doctrine of necessary determination, which he advocated.

The phrase implies accepting the material universe as a vague environment, a sort of sentimental pantheism.

For many centuries the religion of the priests and scribes had been inclining to pantheism.

His religious views approached more nearly to Pantheism than to any other known system of belief.

Pantheism affirms one existence, but declares that some qualities are infinite, e.g. that existence is intelligent.

He and his followers taught devotion to a personal deity instead of the pantheism hitherto prevalent.

This is the difference generally ignored by those who assert that speculative philosophy is pantheism.

It is interesting to see the remains of the older belief still flourishing in midst of epic pantheism.

He had, perhaps, over and above his honest Pantheism two convictions profound enough to be called prejudices.

When these two were once discussing a book on pantheism, which had lately been published by Rev.

Of all forms of philosophical mysticism, the idea of Pantheism seems to me one of the most extravagant.

These earnest phrases of mystical pantheism escape her lips, though they do not touch her heart.

Pantheism was so inherent in the blood of realism that it was always appearing here and there.

This was only slightly modified in his later years in the direction of the pantheism of Spinoza.

His philosophy has all the charm which pantheism always possesses for a certain class of minds.

I cannot possibly allow you to advance such a thought even in theory, for that would be pantheism.

Pantheism replies to the question by denying that there is anything high as distinguished from the low.

The ultimate truth for it is not pantheism but fixed natural laws of which no explanation is offered.

And he contends the modern tendency of science is back to the old discarded pagan belief of pantheism.

The next thought again was this: Pantheism does not place any one unconditional goal in front of man.

The basis of Bray's philosophy was idealism and pantheism, assuming form under the influence of modern science.

Nor is this collision of pantheism and freedom, nay of religion and morality, confined to the theoretical region.

Pantheism is a half-way house, and marks ascent or descent according to the direction from which it is approached.

Between logical Pantheism and Atheism, however, it cannot be too strongly affirmed, there is no difference save in name.

If it were possible to identify that philosophy with any recognized system of thought, it might be called pantheism.

This thought is also clearly present in Emerson's view of nature, and has caused him to be accused of pantheism.

A certain pantheism, such as Wordsworth was accused of, can be attributed to everybody who loves the landscape.

Many topics are treated of, some of which would not at first thought be associated with an exposition of pantheism.

I do not know how any philosopher who has meditated on the human mind can incline to pantheism.

They are said to have manifested the same kind of pantheism, and to have been led by it to similar disbelief.

His philosophy rested upon the idea of existence which excluded the idea of creation, and thus fell into pantheism.

And what they follow is as much something more than Pantheism as a flame is something more than a temperature.

Under the all embracing cloak of pantheism the heart of the epic conceals many an ancient rite and superstition.

Only by being translated into the subjective do they regain their creative power: Pantheism is the remedy for Theism.

Here, at this stage, what is expressed is no longer pantheism; but rather that of the essence in individual things.

This lawyer-scientist thinks nothing can prevent science from falling into the arms of pantheism, and he champions it vigorously.

The first error is pantheism; for the second we cannot think of any designating term more specific than idealism.

As she was leaving the room she called to him, asking when he would give her another lecture on pantheism.

To say that there has ever been a religion which has taught this pantheism is to say what is absolutely untrue.

Eddy is so incredibly ignorant of the meaning of words in common use that she says, "Mind in matter is pantheism."

Perhaps this opinion is a necessary result of the principles of pantheism, but it makes as bad poetry as false philosophy.

This may sound like Pantheism to some, but it is very different from the Pantheism of the schools and cults.

His theory, in so far as it is intelligible, seems to have a stronger affinity with Pantheism than he appears to suppose.

Averroes held the eternity of matter and denied the immortality of the soul; his general view may be described as pantheism.

Some writers have attributed the relative absence of the personal pronouns from the language to the dominating force of impersonal pantheism.

He did not surrender the authority of moral ideals in the face of physical necessity, which is properly the essence of pantheism.

The idea of distinction opposed to that of unity is also fundamental in our mind; yet pantheism gives it no correspondence in the reality.

His lofty mysticism trenched dangerously on their pantheism, and possibly they may have sought to shelter themselves behind his great name.

These, however, are full of the indications of an enthusiastic temper, inclined to mystical devotion, and of opinions bearing the cast of pantheism.

This view contains all the truth of materialism and pantheism, and vastly more than they, and it avoids their errors and omissions.

And they have been largely movements away from Polytheism, on the one hand, and from Pantheism on the other, toward a modern Theism.

This it is which constitutes the real meaning of pantheism, and we shall only have occasion now to employ the expression in this sense.

Pantheism therefore is no immoral creed, and cannot be, if only because it is based upon faith in nature and rooted in respect for it.

Each of them was a revolt from the Pantheism of India, in the interest of morality, human freedom, and the progress of the race.

There is something of the same universal tenderness, the same religious linking together of all the world, in some vague enough, but very beautiful, Pantheism.

The author of the Doctrine of Science, led astray by the doctrines of Kant, establishes the most extravagant pantheism that was ever invented.

It is not to be disguised that Pantheism is the most formidable opponent which truth has to encounter in the cultivated and reflecting classes.

I answer it as follows: I freely admit that, following up this scientific line of thought alone, we are carried strongly in the direction of pantheism.

With such a speculation of infant philosophy we are here not concerned, except to say that it was not Pantheism as understood in modern times.

It substitutes, as pantheism must, the study of tendencies for the study of ends, and the dignity of success for the dignity of justice.

Add to this the milk of human kindness, which did not mix well with his aesthetic pantheism, but which was natural to him.

Everywhere is that doctrine of immortality the note of superior intelligence and will, especially in its contrast with the thin pantheism and negations of Asia.

I wonder people do not see that this kind of suppression of opinion is a sword with two edges, which may cut orthodoxy equally with pantheism.

Nature worship is natural enough while the society is young, or, in other words, Pantheism is all right as long as it is the worship of Pan.

All of which I have endeavored to explain by electrical law and processes; and they conclude all these things prove the pantheism of the universe.

For pantheism implies in its nature that one thing is as good as another; whereas action implies in its nature that one thing is greatly preferable to another.

We do not think that he ever comprehended the essential principle of pantheism, or foresaw all the logical consequences of the principles he himself adopted and defended.

I have no desire to hide the fact that this form of Pantheism appears to me to promise solution of some problems, especially problems in psychology, which Atheism leaves untouched.

The lines are full of that pantheism which not only brings subject and object, Mind and Nature, into symbolic relationship, but works them into one tissue.

And in my judgment the only thing that will redeem modern science from pantheism is the prevalent belief in and acceptance of the theory of electrical creation.

In order to enter on the question of pantheism free from all confusion, let us sum up in a few words all that reason and experience teach concerning substance.

When it takes on the ritual of decorative design, this new vitality is made seductive, and when it is an object of nature, this seductive ritual becomes a new pantheism.

This view of the world finds its most characteristic expression in pantheism, which, though expressed in various and often fantastic forms, is eminently the religion of modern man.

Pantheism is that method of thought which conceives of the universe as the development of one intelligent and voluntary, yet impersonal, substance, which reaches consciousness only in man.

Narrow and dangerous was the border-line always between pantheism and materialism, and the chief interest of the schools was in finding fault with each other's paths.

These ideas are clear and distinct; by them pantheism is destroyed in all its transformations, and forced, as old Proteus was by Menelaus, to resume its primitive form.

The difficulty lays bare the nerve of the problem of pantheism, and probably Spinoza was not clear in his own mind about the relation of the attributes to the substance.

This may be Pantheism, but if it is not in accordance with the needs of the ages, it is not the Pantheism of Giordano Bruno, it has little in common with Plato.

Gradually the distinction between man and nature grew faint, so that a kind of pantheism arose in which a general power, at once natural and spiritual, appeared as the ruler of all.

We find ample historical confirmation of what has just been said in the very instructive fact, that widespread as pantheism is, it has never in itself been the religion of any people.

It is useless to add that pantheism destroys liberty of will; this liberty of which we are so clearly and vividly conscious, and which accompanies us through every moment of our existence.

It is neither pure materialism on the one hand nor pantheism on the other; but a true doctrine of creation, for an intelligent and moral purpose, by the conscious and free act of the Creator.

Though they taught pantheism in their sacred books, the second and third castes, namely the warriors and farmers, did not understand the teaching, and the fourth caste dared not read them at all.

It was their pantheism that led them to favor suicide, and in this respect it is my belief that the modern conscience, trained by the Old and New Testaments, has risen to a higher level than theirs.