Pantheism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Related concepts == [[Nature worship]] or nature mysticism is often conflated and confused with pantheism. It is pointed out by at least one expert, Harold Wood, founder of the [[Universal Pantheist Society]], that in pantheist philosophy Spinoza's identification of God with nature is very different from a recent idea of a self identifying pantheist with environmental ethical concerns. His use of the word [[nature]] to describe his worldview may be vastly different from the "nature" of modern sciences. He and other nature mystics who also identify as pantheists use "nature" to refer to the limited [[natural environment]] (as opposed to man-made [[built environment]]). This use of "nature" is different from the broader use from Spinoza and other pantheists describing natural laws and the overall phenomena of the physical world. Nature mysticism may be compatible with pantheism but it may also be compatible with theism and other views.<ref name="LevineDetailed">{{harvnb|Levine|1994|pp=44, 274–275}}: * "The idea that Unity that is rooted in nature is what types of nature mysticism (e.g. Wordsworth, Robinson Jeffers, Gary Snyder) have in common with more philosophically robust versions of pantheism. It is why nature mysticism and philosophical pantheism are often conflated and confused for one another." * "[Wood's] pantheism is distant from Spinoza's identification of God with nature, and much closer to nature mysticism. In fact it is nature mysticism." * "Nature mysticism, however, is as compatible with theism as it is with pantheism."</ref> Pantheism has also been involved in [[animal worship]] especially in primal religions.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K0_dHrRY3gIC&dq=%22pantheism%22+%22animal+worship%22&pg=PA4 |title=World Religions at Your Fingertips – Michael McDowell, Nathan Robert Brown – Google Books |isbn=9781592578467 |accessdate=2022-10-08|last1=McDowell |first1=Michael |last2=Brown |first2=Nathan Robert |year=2009 |publisher=Penguin }}</ref> [[Nontheism]] is an umbrella term which has been used to refer to a variety of religions not fitting traditional theism, and under which pantheism has been included.<ref name="LevineDetailed"/> [[Panentheism]] (from Greek πᾶν (pân) "all"; ἐν (en) "in"; and θεός (theós) "God"; "all-in-God") was formally coined in Germany in the 19th century in an attempt to offer a philosophical synthesis between traditional theism and pantheism, stating that God is substantially [[omnipresent]] in the physical universe but also exists "apart from" or "beyond" it as its Creator and Sustainer.<ref name="Cooper">{{cite book |first=John W. |last=Cooper |title=The Other God of the Philosophers |publisher=Baker Academic |date=2006}}</ref>{{rp|p.27}} Thus panentheism separates itself from pantheism, positing the extra claim that God exists above and beyond the world as we know it.{{sfn|Levine|1994|p=11}} The line between pantheism and panentheism can be blurred depending on varying definitions of God, so there have been disagreements when assigning particular notable figures to pantheism or panentheism.<ref name="Cooper" />{{rp|pp. 71–72, 87–88, 105}}<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy |title=Genealogy to Iqbal |year=1998 |editor-first=Edward |editor-last=Craig |page=100 |isbn=9780415073103 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5m5z_ca-qDkC}}</ref> [[Pandeism]] is another word derived from pantheism, and is characterized as a combination of reconcilable elements of pantheism and [[deism]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The History of Science: A Beginner's Guide|page=[https://archive.org/details/historyofscience0000john/page/90 90]|first=Sean F. |last=Johnston|year=2009|isbn=978-1-85168-681-0|url=https://archive.org/details/historyofscience0000john/page/90}}</ref> It assumes a Creator-deity that is at some point distinct from the universe and then transforms into it, resulting in a universe similar to the pantheistic one in present essence, but differing in origin. [[Panpsychism]] is the philosophical view that consciousness, mind, or soul is a universal feature of all things.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last1=Seager |first1=William |last2=Allen-Hermanson |first2=Sean |title=Panpsychism |encyclopedia=The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy |date=23 May 2001 |edition=Winter 2012 |editor-first=Edward N. |editor-last=Zalta |url=http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2012/entries/panpsychism/}}</ref> Some pantheists also subscribe to the distinct philosophical views [[hylozoism]] (or panvitalism), the view that everything is alive, and its close neighbor [[animism]], the view that everything has a soul or spirit.<ref>{{cite book |last=Haught |first=John F. |date=1990 |title=What Is Religion?: An Introduction |publisher=Paulist Press |page=19}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. 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