1. Comparative Religion - Possible Difficulties In Pantheism This article surveys some possible difficulties in pantheism. Possible difficulties in pantheism. by Ernest Valea. This and other similar articles address potential http://www.comparativereligion.com/pantheism.html

Comparative religion main articles Ultimate Reality Human condition Salvation Nature of evil ... Conclusion Reincarnation articles Reincarnation in world religions Past-life recall Cosmic justice ... Reincarnation and Christianity Eastern religions articles Pantheism Samkhya Yoga Bhagavad Gita ... Buddhism Christianity vs. Eastern religions articles Avatars Other Saviors Eastern sayings Prodigal son ... Other websites Buddhism vs. Christianity. A resource for further study: Last modified: August 16, 2010 visitors: Possible difficulties in pantheism by Ernest Valea This and other similar articles address potential inconsistencies encountered by a certain religious view. While I see them as inconsistencies, for others they may pose no problem at all. For this reason, the articles are entitled "Possible difficulties in [this or that religion]" and not "Contradictions in [this or that religion]". Each of these articles is a list of possible difficulties with short comments aimed at encouraging critical thinking on each issue. The meaning of knowledge in pantheism Since the duality knower-known is an illusion in pantheism, what could be the meaning of knowledge in the case of the atman-Brahman identity? "Knowing" this identity cannot be a real epistemological process. S. Radhakrishnan states: "As the distinction between the highest self and the individual is one of false knowledge, we get rid of it by true knowledge." (

2. Pantheism (Stanford Encyclopedia Of Philosophy) Definition of pantheism from the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pantheism/

Cite this entry Search the SEP Advanced Search Tools ... Please Read How You Can Help Keep the Encyclopedia Free Pantheism First published Tue Jun 4, 1996; substantive revision Thu May 17, 2007 The book recognized as containing the most complete attempt at explaining and defending pantheism from a philosophical perspective is Spinoza's Ethics , finished in 1675 two years before his death. In 1720 John Toland wrote the Pantheisticon: or The Form of Celebrating the Socratic-Society in Latin. He (possibly) coined the term "pantheist" and used it as a synonym for "Spinozist." However, aside from some interesting pantheistic sounding slogans (like "Every Thing is to All, as All is to Every Thing"), and despite promising "A short Dissertation upon a Two-fold philosophy of the Pantheists" Toland's work has little to do with pantheism. 1. Pantheism and Theism 2. Is Pantheism Atheistic? 3. Unity 4. Misunderstandings ... Related Entries 1. Pantheism and Theism Where pantheism is considered as an alternative Not all of the problems generated by the theistic notion of God are also problems for pantheism. But given a suitable reformulation, some of them will be. And, as expected, pantheism will also generate some difficulties peculiar to itself. Thus, although evil and creation do not present identical problems for pantheism and theism, and may even be inherent to theism; it may also be possible to reformulate them in a way that makes them applicable to pantheism. There may be pantheistic counterparts to the problem of evil and other classical theistic problems, and perhaps they can be resolved by pantheism.

3. Pantheism A description of pantheism, and some common forms. http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/PANTHEISM.html

Pantheism Pantheism is the philosophy that everything is God (pan="everything" theos="God") or that the universe and nature are divine Pantheism is distinguished from panentheism, which holds that God is in everything, but also transcends the Universe. Strict pantheism is not a theism. It does not believe in a transcendent or personal God who is the creator of the universe and the judge of humans. Many pantheists feel the word "God" is too loaded with these connotations and never use the word in their own practice - though they may use it to simplify, or to explain things to theists. Pantheism has often been accused of atheism , and not just because it rejects the idea of a personal creator God. Strict or naturalistic pantheism believes that the Universe either originated itself out of nothing, or has existed forever. Modern scientific pantheism is materialistic. It believes that design in the universe can be fully accounted for by principles of evolution and self-organization . It does not believe in separate spirits or survival of the soul after death. Pantheists concerned about personal immortality seek it in realistic ways - through children, deeds, works, and the memories of the living.

4. CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Pantheism Explanation of Catholic opposition to pantheism. http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11447b.htm

Home Encyclopedia Summa Fathers ... P > Pantheism Pantheism (From Greek pan , all; theos , god). The view according to which God and the world are one. The name pantheist was introduced by John Toland (1670-1722) in his "Socinianism truly Stated" (1705), while pantheism was first used by his opponent Fay in "Defensio Religionis" (1709). Toland published his "Pantheisticon" in 1732. The doctrine itself goes back to the early Indian philosophy ; it appears during the course of history in a great variety of forms , and it enters into or draws support from so many other systems that, as Professor Flint says ("Antitheistic Theories", 334), "there is probably no pure pantheism". Taken in the strictest sense, i.e. as identifying God and the world, Pantheism is simply Atheism . In any of its forms it involves Monism , but the latter is not necessarily pantheistic. Emanationism may easily take on a pantheistic meaning and as pointed out in the Encyclical "Pascendi dominici gregis", the same is true of the modern doctrine of immanence Varieties These agree in the fundamental doctrine that beneath the apparent diversity and multiplicity of things in the universe there is one only being absolutely necessary eternal , and infinite . Two questions then arise: What is the nature of this being? How are the manifold appearances to be explained? The principal answers are incorporated in such different earlier systems as

5. Pantheism - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia pantheism is the view that the Universe and God are identical. Pantheists thus do not believe in a personal, anthropomorphic or creator god. The word derives from the Ancient http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism

Pantheism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Pantheism is the view that the Universe Nature ) and God are identical. Pantheists thus do not believe in a personal anthropomorphic or creator god . The word derives from the pan ) meaning ‘all’ and theos ) meaning ‘God’. As such, Pantheism denotes the idea that “ God ” is best seen as a way of relating to the Universe Although there are divergences within Pantheism, the central ideas found in almost all versions are the Cosmos as an all-encompassing unity and the sacredness of Nature. Contents History Recent developments Varieties Issues ... edit History The term “pantheist” — from which the word “Pantheism” was derived — was purportedly first used in English by Irish writer John Toland in his 1705 work, Socinianism Truly Stated, by a pantheist . He clarified the idea in a 1710 letter to Leibniz when he referred to “the pantheistic opinion of those who believe in no other eternal being but the universe.” However, many earlier writers, schools of philosophy, and religious movements expressed pantheistic ideas. They include some of the Presocratics such as Heraclitus and Anaximander . The Stoics were Pantheists, beginning with

6. PANTHEISM: The World Pantheist Movement The WPM is a membership organization dedicated to the promotion of natural/scientific pantheism, revering the Universe, caring for Nature, and celebrating life. http://www.pantheism.net/

7. Pantheism: Personal Responsibility, Religious Tolerance And Reverence For All Li While quantum physics may be a modern development, pantheism is in fact an ancient spiritual path that holds everything in the Universe to be sacred. Eastern philosophies http://www.experiencefestival.com/a/Pantheism/id/21902

8. Pantheism: pantheism is the view that the Universe (Nature) and God are identical,1 or that the Universe (including Nature on Earth) is the only thing deserving the deepest kind of reverence http://www.advantacell.com/wiki/Pantheism

Pantheism Article in other languages: Pantheïsme Panteizm Panteizam Panteisme ... Thuyết phiếm thần Pantheism is the view that the Universe Nature ) and God are identical, or that the Universe (including Nature on Earth) is the only thing deserving the deepest kind of reverence. The word derives from the Ancient Greek pan ) meaning "All" and theos ) meaning "God" - literally "All is God." As such Pantheism promotes the idea that God is better understood as a way of relating to nature and the Universe as a whole - all that was, is and shall be - rather than as a transcendent , mental, personal or creator entity. Pantheists thus do not believe in a personal anthropomorphic or creator god . Although there are divergences within Pantheism, the central ideas found in almost all versions are the Cosmos as an all-encompassing unity and the "sacredness" of Nature. Contents History Recent developments Varieties Issues ... External links History The term "pantheist"—from which the word "Pantheism" is derived—was purportedly first used in English by Irish writer John Toland in his 1705 work

9. Pantheism: Definition From Answers.com n. A doctrine identifying the Deity with the universe and its phenomena. Belief in and worship of all gods. pantheist pan ' the ist n. pantheistic pan ' the is ' tic or pan http://www.answers.com/topic/pantheism

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11. Definition Of Pantheism A critique of pantheism from a Christian perspective http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/dissent/defpanth.htm

Definition of Pantheism Pantheism [This concept has been resurrected in New Age thought (From Greek pan , all; theos , god). The view according to which God and the world are one. The name pantheist was introduced by John Toland (1670-1722) in his "Socinianism truly Stated" (1705), while pantheism was first used by his opponent Fay in "Defensio Religionis" (1709). Toland published his "Pantheisticon" in 1732. The doctrine itself goes back to the early Indian philosophy; it appears during the course of history in a great variety of forms, and it enters into or draws support from so many other systems that, as Professor Flint says ("Antitheistic Theories", 334), "there is probably no pure pantheism". Taken in the strictest sense, i.e. as identifying God and the world, Pantheism is simply Atheism. In any of its forms it involves Monism (q.v.), but the latter is not necessarily pantheistic. Emanationism (q.v.) may easily take on a pantheistic meaning and as pointed out in the Encyclical, "Pascendi dominici gregis" the same is true of the modern doctrine of immanence (q.v.). VARIETIES These agree in the fundamental doctrine that beneath the apparent diversity and multiplicity of things in the universe there is one only being absolutely necessary, eternal, and infinite. Two questions then arise: What is the nature of this being? How are the manifold appearances to be explained? The principal answers are incorporated in such different earlier systems as Brahminism, Stoicism, Neo-Platonism, and Gnosticism, and in the later systems of Scotus Eriugena and Giordano Bruno (qq.v.).

12. PANTHEISM: Nature, Universe, Science And Religion pantheism. Sacred Nature. The Web's biggest resource on pantheist history, theory and practice. http://www.pantheism.net/paul/index.htm

13. DISF - Interdisciplinary Encyclopaedia Of Religion And Science | Pantheism Home Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia pantheism . Copyright Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science ISSN 20372329 and Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti http://www.disf.org/en/Voci/92.asp

Edited by Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti Philip Larrey and Alberto Strum�a Home Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia Pantheism No part of this article may be reproduced, stored in a retrievial system or transmitted without the prior permission of the Editors. To refer to the content of this article, quote: INTERS � Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Religion and Science, edited by G. Tanzella-Nitti, P. Larrey and A. Strumia, http://www.inters.org PANTHEISM Giuseppe Tanzella-Nitti I. Ancient Philosophical Thought and Christian Theology: A Short Historical Account. 1. Archaic Eastern Conceptions and the Buddhist Perspective 2. Greek Thought and the Distinction of Beings in Being 3. Plotinian Pantheism 4. Creation out of Nothing: God Participates Being to Creatures . - II. Some Pantheistic Perspectives in the Renaissance and the Modern Age, and their Relation to Scientific Thought. 1. Tommaso Campanella and Giordano Bruno 2. Baruch Spinoza . - III. The Presence of Pantheistic Traits in Some Views of Nature in Contemporary Science 1. The Gnosis of Princeton and Cosmic Neo-Vitalism

14. PANENTHEISM VS. PANTHEISM Why and how Panentheism avoids the pitfalls of pantheism. http://www.websyte.com/alan/pan.htm

PANENTHEISM VS. PANTHEISM The following is an excerpt from New Thought: A Practical American Spirituality , pp. 89-92. Pantheism and Panentheism This universal arrangement is not pantheism (all is God), but panentheism , a term devised by Karl C. F. Krause (1781-1832) to describe his thought. It is best known for its use by Charles Hartshorne and recently by Matthew Fox. Panentheism says that all is in God, somewhat as if God were the ocean and we were fish. If one considers what is in God's body to be part of God, then we can say that God is all there is and then some. The universe is God's body, but God's awareness or personality is greater than the sum of all the parts of the universe. All the parts have some degree of freedom in co-creating with God. At the start of its momentary career as a subject, an experience is Godas the divine initial aim. As the experience carries on its choosing process, it is a freely aiming reality that is not strictly God, since it departs from God's purpose to some degree. Yet everything is within God. The most practical value of pantheism is that it recognizes the presence of God everywhere, but it does this at an enormous cost. It provides for the presence of God as the only actor; God's presence is an overriding presence that cancels the possibility of the existence of anything else, of any genuine beloved, of any loving or unloving response to God. In pantheism, human existence or any other finite existence is at best a mystery. Explanation in any satisfying sense is impossible. There can be affirmation that there is nothing but God, but where that leaves the affirmer is unclear; his or her existence is no more than appearance, and enlightenment brings recognition of one's illusory status as a unique, permanent perspective in reality.

15. Pantheism | Define Pantheism At Dictionary.com –noun 1. the doctrine that god is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations it involves a denial of God's personality http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Pantheism

16. Pantheism pantheism is the belief that the universe and nature are divine. Every religion has had its pantheists. pantheism is the perennial religion, which http://www.meta-religion.com/World_Religions/Pantheism/pantheism.htm

17. Pantheist Age - Modern Pantheism The following is a brief introductory explanation of modern pantheism, with emphasis on the contrasts and similarities between the dualistic and naturalistic varieties, and a brief http://www.paxdoraunlimited.com/PantheistAge_ModernPantheism.html

WHAT IS "MODERN PANTHEISM" O M n i s The following is a brief introductory explanation of modern pantheism, with emphasis on the contrasts and similarities between the dualistic and naturalistic varieties, and a brief commentary on how I see the place of the Universal Pantheist Society with regard to these beliefs. - James D. Quirk (Naturyl) Pantheism is a worldview (a philosophy and sometimes a religion) which holds that Nature itself is the source of creation and therefore equivalent to the concept of Deity. At the level of 'lowest common denominator,' it is a belief in Cosmos (Universe/Nature) as 'Higher Power.' There are basically two major 'flavors' of pantheism, dualistic and naturalistic. Dualistic pantheism asserts that the world is composed of spirit and matter, with spirit or 'God' as the fundamental essence. In dualistic pantheism, the material Universe is a manifestation and extension of the underlying spiritual reality. Naturalistic pantheism, on the other hand, does not see such a distinction - nor any necessity for it. Operating from a materialist paradigm, the naturalistic variety of pantheism sees matter/energy as the only substance in existence, and as such the fundamental 'spiritual' essence by default. It is important here to bear in mind Carl Sagan's definition of spirituality: 'the human relationship to the numinous.' Naturalistic pantheists feel that the numinous need not be any supernatural ether or non-material essence - in fact it is hard to imagine anything more numinous than the vibrantly creative reality of matter/energy, whether it is seen as a manifestation of something deeper or as the most fundamental reality in and of itself.

18. Christian Science Versus Pantheism Pastor Mary Baker Eddy s message in opposition to pantheism. http://www.mbeinstitute.org/Prose_Works/CSvsPantheism.html

Christian Science versus Pantheism by Mary Baker Eddy Pastor Emeritus of The First Church of Christ, Scientist Boston, and Author of Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures Published by the Trustees under the Will of Mary Baker G. Eddy Boston, U.S.A. By Mary Baker G. Eddy Printed in the United States of America Christian Science versus Pantheism PASTOR'S MESSAGE TO THE MOTHER CHURCH, ON THE OCCASION OF THE JUNE COMMUNION, 1898 SUBJECT: Not Pantheism, but Christian Science BELOVED brethren, since last you gathered at the feast of our Passover, the winter winds have come and gone; the rushing winds of March have shrieked and hummed their hymns; the frown and smile of April, the laugh of May, have fled; and the roseate blush of joyous June is here and ours. In unctuous unison with nature, mortals are hoping and working, putting off outgrown, wornout, or soiled gar- ments - the pleasures and pains of sensation and the sackcloth of waiting - for the springtide of Soul. For what a man seeth he hopeth not for, but hopeth for what

19. Metaphysics Of Pantheism - Famous Pantheist Quotes pantheism Discussion of Philosophy, Metaphysics quotes on pantheism (Heraclitus, Lao Tzu, Spinoza, Albert Einstein, etc.) The Metaphysics of Space and Motion and Wave http://www.spaceandmotion.com/pantheism.htm

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