pantheism
pronunciation
How to pronounce pantheism in British English:
UK [ˈpænθiɪzəm]
How to pronounce pantheism in American English:
US [ˈpænθiˌɪzəm]
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- Noun:
- (rare) worship that admits or tolerates all gods
- 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
Word Origin
- pantheism (n.)
- "belief that God and the universe are identical," from pantheist (n.), which was coined (1705) by Irish deist John Toland (1670-1722), from Greek pan- "all" (see pan-) + theos "god" (see theo-). Toland's word was borrowed into French, which from it formed panthéisme (1712) which returned to English as pantheism "the doctrine that all is god" in 1732 (no evidence that Toland used pantheism). Greek pantheios meant "common to all gods" (see pantheon). Other words used at various times for similar notions include panentheism, "philosophy founded on the notion that all things are in God" (1874), from German (1828), coined by Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781-1832).
Example
- 1. From animism to naturalistic pantheism , there are various belief systems that deify the natural world .
- 2. Most uus know vaguely of the transcendentalists , their alleged pantheism , their love of nature , their intellectual and literary power .
- 3. Dewey now seemed to me a philosopher who had learned all that hegel had to teach about how to eschew certainty and eternity , while immunizing himself against pantheism by taking darwin seriously .