21. Pagan & Earth Based - Faiths & Prayer- Beliefnet.com Seeing the universe as a profound unity, pantheists turn to nature for spiritual inspiration. http://www.beliefnet.com/story/135/story_13536_1.html

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22. Pantheism - Wiktionary The belief that the universe is in some sense divine and should be revered. pantheism identifies the universe with God but denies any personality or transcendence of such a http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pantheism

pantheism Definition from Wiktionary, the free dictionary Jump to: navigation search Wikipedia has an article on: Pantheism Wikipedia Contents English Etymology Pronunciation Alternative forms ... edit English edit Etymology From pan- Ancient Greek god -ism . The term " pantheist " - of which "pantheism" is a variation - was purportedly first used by Irish writer John Toland in his 1705 work, Socinianism Truly Stated, by a pantheist . A critic of Toland, J. Fay, was the first to use the term "pantheism" in 1709, in Defensio Religionis edit Pronunciation IPA /ˈpæn.θi.ɪz.əm/ edit Alternative forms sometimes hyphenated or expressed as a phrase: pan-theism pan theism sometimes either the P or (rarely) both the P and T are capitalized: Pantheism PanTheism variations of capitalization and spacing may be combined: Pan-theism Pan-Theism Pan Theism Pan theism edit Noun pantheism plural pantheisms The belief that the universe is in some sense divine and should be revered . Pantheism identifies the universe with God but denies any personality or transcendence of such a God. rare The belief in all gods;

23. Theology, Pantheism Spinoza: Discussion Metaphysics Of Pantheism, Spinoza Quotes Theology, pantheism, Spinoza Discussion of the Metaphysics and Philosophy of Spinoza's pantheism All is One (Nature, God) All is Space and (Wave) Motion - pantheism Quotes http://www.spaceandmotion.com/Theology-Pantheism-Spinoza.htm

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24. The Pantheist Index An extensive listing of resources around the Web relating to pantheism. http://www.pantheist-index.net/

25. Pantheism Definition Of Pantheism In The Free Online Encyclopedia. pantheism (păn`thēĭzəm) Gr. pan =all, theos =God, name used to denote any system of belief or speculation that includes the teaching God is all, and all is God. http://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.com/pantheism

26. Pantheism - Group A Web-based board on pantheism, with many topics on religion, philosophy and science. http://p199.ezboard.com/bpantheism

27. Pantheism - Definition And More From The Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary Definition of word from the MerriamWebster Online Dictionary with audio pronunciations, thesaurus, Word of the Day, and word games. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pantheism

28. Apologetics In The New Age: A Christian Critique Of Pantheism Book Review Apologetics in the New Age A Christian Critique of pantheism. http://www.csj.org/pub_csj/csjbookreview/csjbkrev92apologetics.htm

Please see our new site, www.icsahome.com which has new material and a more helpful structure. NEW! International Cultic Studies Association site has moved - click here Bookstore Journal ... Donate ICSA resources about psychological manipulation, cultic groups, sects, and new religious movements. Cultic Studies Journal Apologetics in the New Age: A christian Critique of Pantheism Psychological Manipulation and Society Cultic Studies Journal Psychological Manipulation and Society Vol. 9, No. 2, 1992 Apologetics in the New Age: A Christian Critique of Pantheism David K. Clark and Norman L. Geisler. Baker Book House, Grand Rapids, MI, 1990, 254 pages. Reviewer: The Rev. Richard L. Dowhower The truth claims of new religious movements and psychotechnologies have been essentially ignored in public by the anti-cult movement in its initial decade and a half. Persons of varied theologies and shared goodwill aimed their counterattacks at the human-rights-violating practices of the cults. Fraud, deception, denial of informed consent, ritual abuse, involuntary servitude, economic exploitation, sexual abuse, mistreatment of children, and other forms of religious malpractice provided the focus. But in the privacy of deprogramming and exit counseling sessions, the incongruities and self-contradictions of cult truth claims played an important role in the discrediting of the groups and their gurus. Truth claims were a potent issue.

29. Pantheism - New World Encyclopedia pantheism (from Greek pan = all, and theos = God) refers to the religious and philosophical view that everything in existence is of an allencompassing immanent God, or that http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Pantheism

Pantheism From New World Encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Previous (Pantanal) Next (Panthera) Pantheism (from Greek: pan = all, and theos = God) refers to the religious and philosophical view that everything in existence is of an all-encompassing immanent God , or that the universe, or nature, and God are equivalent (i.e., that "all is God"). There are two types of pantheism: "classical" and "naturalistic" pantheism. In equating the universe with God, classical pantheism does not strongly redefine or minimize either term, still believing in a personal God, while naturalistic pantheism redefines them, treating God as rather impersonal, as in the philosophy of Spinoza . In any case, what is stressed is the idea that all existence in the universe (the sum total of all that is, was, and shall be) is of the same essence as the divine. Pantheists, then, typically deny God's transcendence. The problem of evil , which is a problem for theism , is not a problem for pantheism in the same way, since pantheism rejects the theistic notion of God as omnipotent and perfectly good.

30. Mereological Ontological Arguments And Pantheism Philosophical disagreement with pantheism. Based on the Pantheist definition of God. http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/graham_oppy/panth.html

Library: Modern Documents: Graham Oppy: Mereological Ontological Arguments and Pantheism Mereological Ontological Arguments and Pantheism (19) Graham Oppy Mereological ontological arguments areas the name suggestsontological arguments which draw on the resources of mereology, i.e. the theory of the part-whole relation. An instance of arguments of this kind is the following: 1. I exist. (Premise, contingent a priori 2. (Hence) Somei.e. least onething exists. (From 1) 3. Whenever some things exist, there is some thing of which they are all parts. (Premise, from mereology) 4. (Hence) There is exactly one thing of which every thing is a part. (From 2, 3) 5. The unique thing of which every thing is a part is God. (Definition, pantheism) 6. (Hence) God exists. (From 4, 5) The status of premise 1 is controversial: friends of two-dimensional modal logic (and others) will be reluctant to grant that the proposition that I exist is both contingent and knowable a priori (even by me). Instead, they will insist that all that I know a priori is that the sentence "I exist" expresses some true proposition or other when I token it. But, of course, even that will suffice for the purposes of the argument. Provided that I know

31. Home - Pilipino Pantheist A description of pantheism and some of the beliefs and aspirations of Filipino Pantheists. http://philpantheism.webs.com/

var fw_a_cats = ['00'];var fw_a_sizes = ['300x250'];var fw_a_slots = ['user_bbtemplate_300x250']; Pilipino Pantheist Home Our Beliefs PANTHEISM in the Philippines (PANTEISMO NG PILIPINAS) Pantheism is the belief that God is the Universe or Nature. It takes its name from the Greek god of nature, Pan. It can take three forms, Natural Pantheism, that Pan is Nature, a force within the Universe; Spiritual Pantheism, that there is a Universal Spirit that is present in all persons and all things, that our personal spirit is merely part of the Universal Spirit; and Universal Pantheism, that God is the Universe, not a separate creator person, but the totality of existence, with all its organization or order, its mystery and its grandeur. Spiritual Pantheism was present in the Philippines before the Spanish conquest. It was never the major belief that it was over the Pacific Islands, where the Universal Spirit is still revered as Mana in all the Polynesian, Melanesian and Micronesian languages. Mana controls the destiny of everyone and everything. How important you are, how great a leader or faith healer, is a function of how much Mana you possess. In Pilipino traditional religions, there are layers of divinity, with a supreme creator God at top who is fairly inaccessible and not intimately involved in daily life, major gods below It, then Laon, the Universal Spirit which is present in all creatures, then anito, gods or spirits present in the world and intimately involved in daily life. How widespread the belief in Laon was, how important it was, and how Laon was related to, much of this knowledge was lost during the long domination by the Spanish and the Catholic Church.

32. Pantheism - Catholic Encyclopedia - Catholic Online Catholic Online Catholic Encyclopedia (From Greek pan , all; theos , god). The view according to which God and the world are one. http://www.catholic.org/encyclopedia/view.php?id=8947

33. Pantheist.Net - Universal Pantheist Society pantheism reconciles science and religion through ecology leading to strong environmental awareness. Pantheists believe in Divine Immanence. To the Pantheist, divinity does not http://www.pantheist.net/

" We seek renewed reverence for the Earth and a vision of Nature as the ultimate context for human existence... " Pantheist Society Key Ideas Publications Pantheist Vision ... Nederlands (Dutch) Welcome to Pantheist.Net! The Internet home of the Universal Pantheist Society Pantheist.Net is is the online home of the Universal Pantheist Society , an organization which since 1975 has provided a network for Pantheists. In Universal Pantheism, there is no creed or requirements to follow any particular belief or practices; rather we seek to provide ways for individuals to promote their own spiritual growth and understanding. Our goal is to provide Pantheism with a unified worldwide presence bringing Pantheists of all varieties together to share in our commonality while providing a continually growing source of information and inspiration. What is Pantheism? Pantheism holds that the cosmos, taken or conceived of as a whole, is synonymous with God. The Cosmos is divine, and the earth sacred. The Cosmos is divine

34. Pantheism Several articles on pantheism. A source of information for deeper understanding of religious subjects. http://mb-soft.com/believe/txc/pantheis.htm

Pantheism General Information Pantheism is the belief that everything is divine, that God is not separate from but totally identified with the world, and that God does not possess personality or transcendence. Pantheism generally can be traced to two sources. The first is the Vedic tradition (Hinduism), which begins with the belief that the divine principle from which everything arises is a unity and that the perception of multiplicity is illusory and unreal. In the Vedanta, Brahman is the infinite reality behind the illusory and imperfect world of perception. Our knowledge is imperfect because we experience subject and object as distinct. When subject and object are equated, however, all distinctions are eliminated and we know Brahman. In the Western tradition the cosmology of the Stoics and, more importantly, the emanationist hierarchy of Neoplatonism tend toward pantheism. In Judeo - Christian thought the emphasis on the transcendence of God inhibits pantheism. Nevertheless, a form of pantheism is found in the thought of the medieval scholastic John Scotus Erigena, who viewed the universe as a single, all - inclusive system with various simultaneous stages. The most important modern version of pantheism is that of Baruch Spinoza. For him nature is infinite, but because the only being capable of genuine infinity is God, God must be identical, in essence, with nature. In the 18th and 19th centuries the various forms of Idealism sometimes tended toward pantheism, often in the form of a theory of cosmic evolution.

35. Pantheism - LoveToKnow 1911 pantheism (Gr. 7rav, all, 0E6s, god), the doctrine which identifies the universe with God, or God with the universe.' The term pantheist was apparently first used by John Toland in http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Pantheism

Pantheism From LoveToKnow 1911 PANTHEISM (Gr. 7rav, all, 0E6s, god), the doctrine which identifies the universe with God, or God with the universe.' The term "pantheist" was apparently first used by John Toland in 1705, and it was at once adopted by French and English writers. Though the term is thus of recent origin, the system of thought or attitude of mind for which it stands may be traced back both in European and in Eastern philosophy to a very early stage. At the same time pantheism almost necessarily presupposes a more concrete and less sophisticated conception of God and the universe. It presents itself historically as an intellectual revolt against the difficulties involved in the presupposition of theistic and polytheistic systems, and in philosophy as an attempt to solve the dualism of the one and the many, unity and difference, thought and extension. Thus the pious Hindu, confronted by the impossibility of obtaining perfect knowledge by the senses or by reason, finds his sole perfection in the contemplation of the infinite (Brahma). In

36. Pantheism Glossary of Religion and Philosophy pantheism daniel waterland christian apologist john toland independent existence human senses http://atheism.about.com/library/glossary/general/bldef_pantheism.htm

zWASL=1;zGRH=1 zJs=10 zJs=11 zJs=12 zJs=13 zc(5,'jsc',zJs,9999999,'') zDO=0 Home Agnosticism / Atheism Agnosticism / Atheism Search Atheism Basics Critiquing Religion Life Without Gods ... Share w(x2+zWl+'?p=1" zT="18/1[N" rel="nofollow">Print') Filed In: Agnosticism / Atheism pantheism Back to Last Page Glossary Index Related Terms theism religion Definition: Pantheist (pan=all; theos=god) is a term coined in 1705 by John Toland for someone who believes that everything is God. On this basis in 1732, the Christian apologist Daniel Waterland used the noun "pantheism" for the first time, condemning the belief as "scandalously bad... scarce differing from... Atheism." Under pantheistic theory, only God exists and all that exists is God. There are various forms of pantheism, but the most common argues that the totality of reality - you, the computer, everything - is a part of God. Another common form is that simply the universe itself or perhaps the laws of nature are God. There are four named categories of pantheism in the literature: Theomonistic Pantheism : Only God exists and the independent existence of nature is denied - also referred to as acosmism (a-*cos-mism, or "no-world")

37. Pantheism - Wikiquote A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Pantheism

Pantheism From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge. ~ Carl Sagan Pantheism is the view that everything is part of an all-encompassing immanent abstract God; or that the universe, or nature, and God are equivalent. edit Sourced St. Augustine City of God (426), Book 4, Chapter 12. Concerning the rational animal himself,—that is, man,—what more unhappy belief can be entertained than that a part of God is whipped when a boy is whipped? And who, unless he is quite mad, could bear the thought that parts of God can become lascivious, iniquitous, impious, and altogether damnable? In brief, why is God angry at those who do not worship Him, since these offenders are parts of Himself? St. Augustine, City of God (426), Book 4, Chapter 13. On the whole, one might be surprised that even in the seventeenth century pantheism did not gain a complete victory over theism; for the most original, finest, and most thorough European expositions of it (none of them, of course, will bear comparison with the Upanishads of the Vedas ) all came to light at that period, namely through

38. Pantheism - Crystalinks pantheism. pantheism is the doctrine that the universe conceived of as a whole is God and, conversely, that there is no God but the combined substance, forces, and laws that http://www.crystalinks.com/pantheism.html

Pantheism Pantheism is the doctrine that the universe conceived of as a whole is God and, conversely, that there is no God but the combined substance, forces, and laws that are manifested in the existing universe. The cognate doctrine of panentheism asserts that God includes the universe as a part though not the whole of his being. The adjective pantheist was coined by the rationalist freethinker John Toland in his book Socinianism Truly Stated The noun pantheism was first used a few years later by one of Toland's opponents. K.C.F. Krause introduced the term panentheism in 1828 as a designation for his own philosophy. Both of these terms have been applied retrospectively to aspects of numerous philosophical traditions, both Eastern and Western. There are several discernible types of Pantheism, ranging from those that attribute consciousness to nature as a whole (panpsychism) to those that interpret the world as merely an appearance and ultimately unreal (acosmic pantheism), and from the rational Neoplatonic, or emanationistic, strain to the intuitive, mystical strain. A mingling of these types characterizes Hindu and Buddhist doctrines; pantheism of one form or another is deeply rooted in the Vedas, the Upanisads, and the Bhagavadgita. Numerous Greek philosophers, notably Xenophanes, Heracleitus, Anaxagoras, Plato, Plotinus, and the proponents of Stoicism, contributed to the foundations of Western pantheism.

39. Pantheism - Simple English Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia pantheism is the belief that God and the universe are equivalent (the same thing.) A Pantheist believes that everything that exists is a part of God, and that God is nothing http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheism

Pantheism From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Pantheism is the belief that God and the universe are equivalent (the same thing.) A Pantheist believes that everything that exists is a part of God, and that God is nothing more than everything that exists. The name pantheism comes from the words theism (belief in God) and Pan which means all. Any doctrine or philosophy that believes that the universe and every thing in it is God is said to be pantheism. Most pantheists believe the universe is sacred and the earth and nature are divine. Pantheists are some times called nature worshipers. Most of the early Greek philosophers from Thales on to Aristotle believed in some sort of pantheism. Pantheism is an important part of many eastern religions such as Hinduism and Taoism Some western philosophers such as Baruch Spinoza and scientists like Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking are Pantheists. Albert Einstein is not a pantheist, contrary to popular belief. "I'm not an atheist and I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library filled with books in many different languages. The child knows someone must have written those books. It does not know how. The child dimly suspects a mysterious order in the arrangement of the books but doesn't know what it is. That, it seems to me, is the attitude of even the most intelligent human being toward God." —Albert Einstein Some Christians Jews and Muslims are Pantheists. However, their majority believes that while God is in everything, there is more to God than just the universe. (This belief is called

40. ABRAHAM ~ CALLED OUT OF PANTHEISM pantheism Geisler pantheism. pantheism means all pan is God theism . It is the worldview held by most Hindus, many Buddhists, and other New Age religions. http://churches.net/churches/utmiss/Religionsectlists/Pantheism.htm

Get a Free Homepage Click Here! PANTHEISM Geisler Pantheism Pantheism means all ["pan"] is God ["theism"]. It is the worldview held by most Hindus, many Buddhists, and other New Age religions. It is also the worldview of Christian Science, Unity, and Scientology. According to pantheism, "God is in all." God pervades all things, contains all things, subsumes all things, and is found within all things. Nothing exists apart from God, and all things are in some way identified with God. The world is God, and God is the world. But more precisely, in pantheism all is God, and God is all. Pantheism has a long history in both the East and the West. From the Eastern mysticism of Hindu sages and sees to the rationalism of such Western philosophers as Parmenides, Benedict Spinoza, and G. W. F. Hegel, pantheism has always had advocates. Kinds of Pantheism. There are different types of belief with pantheism. An absolute pantheism is represented by the thought of the fifth-century B. C. Greek philosopher Parmenides and the Vedanta school of Hinduism. Absolute pantheism teaches that there is only one being in the world, God, and that all else is that appears to exist actually does not. Another type is

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