Citations:pantheism

English citations of pantheism and Pantheism

The belief that the universe is divine and should be revered.

1. David Ray Griffin, Whitehead's Radically Different Postmodern Philosophy: An Argument for Its Contemporary Relevance (2007) p. 197:
   • As Neville mentions, but does not flesh out, pantheism has difficulties. ... As Neville frankly admits, pantheism means that the divine reality is thoroughly ambiguous—as ambiguous as the world is, because God is the world ("the complete creative advance").
2. Carol P. Christ, Rebirth of the goddess: finding meaning in feminist spirituality (1998), p. 104:
   • Process theology's notion of "pan-en-theism" (all is in God) provides a way of understanding God that moves beyond the polarities of immanence and transcendence, pan-theism (all is God) and theism (God is above or beyond all).
3. Albert Pike, Morals and dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1962), p. 570:
   • He, like most philosophers after Anaxagoras, made the Supreme Being to be Intelligence ; but in other respects left his nature undefined, or rather indefinite through the variety of definitions, a conception vaguely floating between Theism and Pan-theism.
4. William Spence Urquhart, Pantheism and the Value of Life: With Special Reference to Indian Philosophy (1919) p. 3:
   • Touched with a more exclusively religious spirit, Pantheism became the foundation of the mysticism of the Middle Ages.
5. C. Amrycm, Pantheism: The Light and Hope of Modern Reason (1898) p. 3:
   • Pantheism is no creed, it is a logic, it makes absolutely no demand upon "belief."
6. Frederick Henry Hedge, Reason in Religion (1865) p. 81:
   • I accept the charge of pantheism, not in the cheerless, impious sense of a God all world, and a world instead of God, but in the true and primary sense of a world all God; i.e., a God co-present to all his works, pervading and embracing all; a God, in apostolic phrase, "in whom and through whom are all things." If this is pantheism, it is the pantheism which has ever been the doctrine of the deepest piety: it is the pantheism professed by devout men in every age of the world.
7. Godfrey Higgins, Anacalypsis: An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis: Or an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations and Religions (1833), pg. 440:
   • Many persons have thought that this Pan related to what has been called Pantheism, or the adoration of universal nature, and that Pantheism was the first system of man.
8. The Gospel Advocate (1822), p. 148.
   • And as pan-theism, though nominally the reverse, is, in reality, but another term for atheism, so Christianity, when generalized, is no Christianity at all.
9. John Ruskin, Fors Clavigiera: Letters to the Workmen and Labourers of Great Britain (1774) letter LVII:
   • In furtherance of which contempt of the only vital question in religions matters, I find, in the preface to this pamphlet, the man, who was so long a favourite Prime Minister of England, speaking of the "indifferentism, scepticism, materialism, and pantheism, which for the moment are so fashionable" only as "negative systems."