pantheistic

1 9.9

Believing that God is in everything in the world

adjective
/ˌpænθiˈɪstɪk/

Specialized

: panteísta

In Vedic thought, we may trace the pantheistic tendency back almost to its emergence in the religious consciousness.
pantheistic togetherness
pantheistic tendencies
pantheistic reverence for Nature

So, you know, can pragmatism embrace this idealistic, pantheistic notion of the absolute?

Examples

Steiner's whole teaching about sense-free thinking seems to depend upon this pantheistic position.

Academic text (1991)
In common parlance, this may be described as 'pantheistic.'

Academic text (2009)
Class, today we have the pleasure of exploring the pantheistic culture of India.

Never Been Kissed (1999)
On the other hand, he is likely to feel that there is an appropriate religious emotion of a pantheistic type.

Academic text (1997)
Some believe in God in a deistic or pantheistic way.

Academic text (2007)
Emerson's idealism was pantheistic, identifying everything in nature with spirit, with the oversoul, with God.

Academic text (1998)
In contrast to Whitehead's pluralistic panentheism, Steiner's view seems to be monistic and thereby pantheistic.

Academic text (1991)
As Tocqueville lucidly foresaw, it leads to the pantheistic negation of both liberty and true individuality.

Academic text (2001)
Even Theodore Munger, who called him "God-intoxicated" like Spinoza, wrote that Bushnell "was not a pantheist" but was "pantheistic."

Academic text (2010)
Many environmentalists adopt a pantheistic view, believing that nature is a reflection of the divine.

Synonyms

pantheist

vspantheistic

Specialized

1 8.5

Describing a belief that God and the universe are the same

is the adjectival form used mainly to describe the belief rather than people

Surface Forms

pantheistic positive

Morphology

pantheistic = pantheist (transparent) = pantheist + ic

Formed by a standard adjective-forming suffix '-ic' from the noun 'pantheist' (or the related noun 'pantheism'), so the relation is morphologically regular and predictable.

Etymology

Pantheistic comes from Greek parts pan- meaning 'all' and theos meaning 'god', like panorama, a view of everything, and theology, the study of God. So, a pantheistic view is the idea that 'God' is the whole world or is in everything.