Theopanism
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Theopanism (from Greek: Θεός Theos, "God" and πᾶν pan, "all") is a religious term by which, as one author puts it, "the meaning given the word God is of an entity that is not separate from the universe."
[O]ne may distinguish pantheism, which imagines the world as an absolute being ("everything is God"), from theopanism, which conceives of God as the true spiritual reality from which everything emanates: "God becomes everything", necessarily, incessantly, without beginning and without end. Theopanism is (with only a few other dualistic systems) the most common way in which Hindu philosophy conceives God and the world.[1]
"Theopanism includes among its major concepts pantheism and panentheism."[2]
See also
[edit ]- God becomes the Universe
- Mordechai Nessyahu
- Pandeism
- Spiritual naturalism
- Baruch Spinoza
- Universal Pantheist Society
References
[edit ]- ^ Civita Cattolica, 5, July, 1930, pp. 17-8, in Antonio Gramsci, "The Prison Notebooks", p. 121.
- ^ Alvin Jay Reines, Polydoxy: explorations in a philosophy of liberal religion, 1987, p. 77.
External links
[edit ]- Why I Believe in God by John J. Lanier, The Builder Magazine, April 1927 - Volume XIII - Number 4
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