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Definition of pantheism in English: pantheismnoun ˈpanθiːɪz(ə)mˈpænθiˌɪzəm mass noun1A doctrine which identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God. 泛神论 Example sentencesExamples - Pot tends to open up to pantheism, even paganism; a Blakeian universe in a grain of sand vs. the promise of heaven to come.
- I think they also feel threatened because this starts to get close to the more democratic religious beliefs of pantheism, wherein the divine becomes manifest in every-thing.
- Similarly, students could study, as part of their understanding of Western monotheism and Eastern pantheism and non-theism, different ideas about how the metaphysical acts upon and manifests in the physical.
- Here, life is presented as purely immanent to itself and without a lapse into transcendent views of nature such as pantheism and animism.
- It is the same Kook who refused to term Judaism a monotheistic religion, believing as he did that strains of purified pagan pantheism were essential to the essence of Hebrew religion.
2The worship or tolerance of many gods. Example sentencesExamples - However the overwhelming majority of classical Jewish thinkers in the past 500 years have categorically refused to choose between pantheism and monotheism.
- He preached a strict monotheism, opposed both to the secular morality of educated Chinese and to the pantheism of popular religion.
- Archaeological evidence suggests the same, indicating that only later did mankind degenerate into idolatrous pantheism.
Derivativesnoun ˈpanθiːɪstˈpænθiɪst This pronouncement has caused Spinoza to be considered both as an atheist and as a pantheist, even - in the famous words of Novalis - as a God-intoxicated man, for whom the divine countenance shines forth from the whole of nature. Example sentencesExamples - The original inhabitants of Oman were pantheists, worshiping various goddesses and gods.
- Scotland started as a place of superstitious animists and pantheists, much as it is today.
- Because of his ecstatic effusions on nature, Shelley is sometimes labeled a pantheist.
- A Manichean who believes the world is essentially evil will draw radically different moral lessons than a pantheist who finds God present everywhere in his creation.
adjective panθiːˈɪstɪkˌpænθiˈɪstɪk Low mysticism is immanent, relies on a sort of pantheistic organicism; high mysticism is transcendent, depending on gods / God that is beyond. Example sentencesExamples - Within Paganism, I think that there's a misconception that being pantheistic equals the absence of wrong.
- This educated man explained that the local spirits are theoretically subject to a supreme god, the sun, but that paganism is pantheistic rather than incipiently monotheistic.
- He then preached against their pantheistic idolatries and urged them to repent.
- In pantheistic systems there is no source for the moral standards that karma enforces.
adjective panθiːˈɪstɪk(ə)l The followers of Kant have selected now one now another doctrine from his ethics and combined therewith various pantheistical systems. Example sentencesExamples - Toland was an atheist who had falsely attributed pantheistical opinions to Moses.
adverb panθiːˈɪstɪk(ə)li Here the totality of all the separate beings are sometimes seen pantheistically and spiritualistically as comprising the cosmic Superbeing. Example sentencesExamples - A friend of mine, a Catholic, views God almost pantheistically, as the sum of the physical laws of the universe, and uses quantum mechanics as a "god idea" so to speak.
OriginMid 18th century: from pan- 'all' + Greek theos 'god' + -ism. Definition of pantheism in US English: pantheismnounˈpænθiˌɪzəmˈpanTHēˌizəm 1A doctrine which identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God. 泛神论 Example sentencesExamples - Here, life is presented as purely immanent to itself and without a lapse into transcendent views of nature such as pantheism and animism.
- Pot tends to open up to pantheism, even paganism; a Blakeian universe in a grain of sand vs. the promise of heaven to come.
- It is the same Kook who refused to term Judaism a monotheistic religion, believing as he did that strains of purified pagan pantheism were essential to the essence of Hebrew religion.
- Similarly, students could study, as part of their understanding of Western monotheism and Eastern pantheism and non-theism, different ideas about how the metaphysical acts upon and manifests in the physical.
- I think they also feel threatened because this starts to get close to the more democratic religious beliefs of pantheism, wherein the divine becomes manifest in every-thing.
2Worship that admits or tolerates all gods. 〈罕〉泛神崇拜 Example sentencesExamples - He preached a strict monotheism, opposed both to the secular morality of educated Chinese and to the pantheism of popular religion.
- However the overwhelming majority of classical Jewish thinkers in the past 500 years have categorically refused to choose between pantheism and monotheism.
- Archaeological evidence suggests the same, indicating that only later did mankind degenerate into idolatrous pantheism.
OriginMid 18th century: from pan- ‘all’ + Greek theos ‘god’ + -ism. |