neo-pantheism
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neo-pantheism (plural neo-pantheisms)
- Any revived or reconceived variation of pantheism, the belief that the Universe is sacred and should be revered; any of a number of modern form of present day renditions of pantheism, as distinguished from earlier perspectives.
- 1838, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, editor, The Dublin Review, page 353:
- The founders of Neo-Pantheism... have no wish for a moment to depreciate the world that has gone before them; and, therefore, not that portion of it which, though they know it not, still subsists in pristine strength, and will alone survive the coming catastrophe!
- 1906, Alfred William Benn, The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century[1], volume I, Longmans, Green, and Co., pages 243–244:
- But Aristotle's Absolute had personality without will; the Absolute of German neo-pantheism has, or rather is, will without personality; for originally it is without self-consciousness.
- 1917, Durant Drake, “The God of the Future is in the Making”, in Current Opinion, page 246:
- This neo-pantheism is wide-spread enough to induce one of our leading publishing houses to reprint Seeley's "Natural Religion," a treatise once famous but lately out of print.
- 2002, Bruce Clarke, Linda Dalrymple Hendersonm, From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art and Literature, page 112:
- Science perhaps never slid as far into neo-pantheism and neo-nihilism as Kelvin feared, and many physicists (and others) retained their confidence in the ether well into the 1920s and 1930s.
- 2004, Philip Clayton, Arthur Robert Peacocke, Religion, In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being, page 131:
- The "Trinitarian" World of Neo-Pantheism: On Panentheism and Epistemology
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- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:neo-pantheism.