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pantheist

pantheist

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A person who believes that God and the universe are the same
  • noun
  • /ˈpænθiɪst/
  • Specialized
: panteísta
  • The pantheist holds that the individual is an illusion and that human beings are not, in fact, born to trouble.
  • pantheist believes

He's not, he's not your usual sort of pantheist, but spirit does work itself out throughout history in the world.

Examples

  • If the pantheist does not believe in a life after death, this seems a good way of understanding "salvation."

    Academic text (1997)

  • Somehow, for most pantheists, the whole is present in each of its parts.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The pantheist of our type will not regard God or the Absolute as a person.

    Academic text (1997)

  • No pantheist will believe in a God answering to this description.

    Academic text (1997)

  • The pantheist describes a world in which the imagination has made virtue unnecessary.

    Academic text (2001)

  • The pantheist, strictly speaking, is little different from Tocqueville's individualist in his apathetic indifference.

    Academic text (2001)

  • We can take this specification a little further and somewhat closer to Levine's favored definition if we say that, for the pantheist, "God is the unified totality of all things."

    Academic text (1997)

  • But as to the nature of this totality, and how we should seek to relate ourselves to it, the differences between pantheists are greater than those which relate some of them to theism on the one hand and to atheism on the other.

    Academic text (1997)

  • A pantheist believes that everything in the universe is a manifestation of God.

  • Many pantheists find divinity in the natural world around them.

Surface Forms

pantheist singular
pantheists plural

Morphology

pantheist = theist (semi-transparent) = pan + theist

Formed by adding the combining prefix 'pan-' ('all') to the recognizable word 'theist'; the meaning is derivable if the learner knows the prefix 'pan-', which is not always familiar.

Etymology

The word pantheist comes from the Greek parts pan- 'all' and theos 'god'. A pantheist is someone who sees God in everything, so the name points to the idea that the whole universe is God.