The teaching that God and the universe are one: everything is God, and God is everything, with nothing standing beyond the world as its maker.
Pantheism identifies God with the All. Its classical philosopher is Spinoza, whose Ethics reads God and Nature as two names for one substance, but the temper is far older and wider, surfacing in Stoic physics, in strands of Hindu thought, and in the nature mysticism of poets. Reverence, on this view, is owed to the world itself, and the line between worship and wonder at existence dissolves.
Pantheism across the site
Sources
Primary
- Baruch Spinoza, Ethics (1677).
Secondary
- Michael P. Levine, Pantheism: A Non-Theistic Concept of Deity (1994).
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