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Pantheism is the belief that the universe (or nature as the totality of everything) is identical with divinity, or that everything composes an all-encompassing, immanent God. Pantheists do not believe in a distinct personal or anthropomorphic god.
The World Pantheist Movement (WPM) is an international organization which promotes naturalistic pantheism, [1] a philosophy which asserts that spirituality should be centered on nature. Paul Harrison is their founder and president. [2]
Another definition of pantheism is the worship of all gods of every religion, but this is more precisely termed omnism. [5] Pantheist belief does not recognize a distinct personal god , [ 6 ] anthropomorphic or otherwise, but instead characterizes a broad range of doctrines differing in forms of relationships between reality and divinity. [ 7 ]
Classical Pantheism, as defined by Charles Hartshorne in 1953, is the theological deterministic philosophies of pantheists such as Baruch Spinoza and the Stoics. Hartshorne sought to distinguish panentheism , which rejects determinism, from deterministic pantheism.
Naturalistic pantheism, also known as scientific pantheism, is a form of pantheism. It has been used in various ways such as to relate God or divinity with concrete things, [1] determinism, [2] or the substance of the universe. [3] From these perspectives, God is seen as the aggregate of all unified natural phenomena. [4]
Edited by Society co-founder Harold Wood, the Journal, a quarterly publication, features member-submitted articles, personal interpretations of pantheism from both members and notable figures, book reviews and essays by the editor . There are also occasionally special publications a recommended Pantheist reading list and book store.
Picton was a disciple of Spinoza and authored Pantheism: Its Story and Significance, in 1905. [5] Picton was a proponent of Christian pantheism which was termed "the religion of the universe". [ 6 ] In his book The Mystery of Matter , Picton considered the universe as a manifestation of an infinite energy with the God of Christianity as ...
Pantheism is the belief that everything is Divine and the Divine is everything. James Maffie, in his book Aztec Philosophy: Understanding a World in Motion, argued that the religion of the Aztecs was pantheistic in nature. Maffie believes that the Aztec view of teotl, found in their poetry, is sufficient to constitute a monist pantheism. He ...