List of pantheists explained

Pantheism is the belief that the universe (or nature as the totality of everything) is identical with divinity, or that everything composes an all-encompassing, immanent God. Pantheists do not believe in a distinct personal or anthropomorphic god.

List

Late modern period

Groups

Africa

Asia

Europe

Middle East

North America

See also

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Notes and References

  1. "Journal: Humanities, Volumes 40–44", publisher = University of Madras, p. 76 – 90
  2. Book: India and India missions. Alexander Duff. 68.
  3. Levine, Michael P.; 1994; Pantheism: A Non-theistic Concept of Deity; Routledge, 1994;,
  4. Book: Ancient Greek Philosophy: Thales to Gorgias. 2006. Pearson Education India. 978-81-7758-939-9. 71. Vijay Tankha. Heraclitus of Ephesus. By equating god with nature, Heraclitus could be regarded as a pantheist — everything is god..
  5. Book: Mander, William. Pantheism. 1 January 2013. Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University . Zalta. Edward N.. Summer 2013.
  6. "Dialogues on the Hindu Philosophy Comprising the Nyaya, the Sankhya, the Vedant ... by K. M. Banerjea", p. 434
  7. Alexander Campbell Fraser "Philosophy of Theism", a collection of lectures from 1896 pg 80–82
  8. Book: Mayer, Paola . 1999 . Jena Romanticism and Its Appropriation of Jakob Böhme: Theosophy – Hapiography – Literature . Montreal / Kingston / London / Ithaca . McGill Queen's University Press . 0-7735-1852-5 . 135 f . The idealistic element in Böhme lies in a particular understanding of the relationship between the infinite and the finite, the divinity and the world, that is the very opposite of what Schlegel proposed in the Jena period. Paradoxically, this relationship is also the point at which Böhme tends towards pantheism. […] It seems reasonable to assume that Schlegel recognized a similarity between the model that explains the world as emanation from the divine perfection and Böhme's account of a creation driven by desire for self-manifestation and made out of God's very substance..
  9. Picton, J. Allanson, "Pantheism: Its Story and Significance", 1905
  10. Fraser, Alexander Campbell "Philosophy of Theism", William Blackwood and Sons, 1895, p 163
  11. Book: The Romantic School and Other Essays: Heinrich Heine. registration. 1986. Continuum International Publishing Group. 978-0-8264-0291-2. Robert C. Holub. Jost Hermand. 223. Goethe was as little a deist as Fichte; for he was a pantheist..
  12. Book: The Gift of Music: Great Composers and Their Influence. 1995. Crossway. 978-0-89107-869-2. 3. Jane Stuart Smith . Betty Carlson . 62. Beethoven loved the natural world, but as a pantheist who worships nature rather than the Creator. "Beethoven was not the man to bow to anyone — even God!" said David Ewen..
  13. Book: How to Understand Music. 2005. Kessinger Publishing. 978-1-4179-9202-7. Oscar Thompson. 136. To begin with, Beethoven was strongly individualistic and, in a sense, harshly antisocial. He realized the stature of his own genius. In Nature only did he recognize his equal and for that reason he was a pantheist of the most ardent order..
  14. Book: The Triumph of Music: The Rise of Composers, Musicians and Their Art. 2008. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-03104-3. T. C. W. Blanning. 99. registration.
  15. Book: Swafford, Jan . Jan Swafford . 2014 . Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph . Boston, New York . Houghton Mifflin Harcourt . 50 . 978-0-618-05474-9 . He believed his talent came from nature—God's nature, to be sure..
  16. Spivey, Nigel (2001). Enduring Creation: Art, Pain, and Fortitude. University of California Press. p. 229.
  17. Book: A Biographical Dictionary of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Freethinkers. 1945. Haldeman-Julius Publications. Joseph McCabe. 1 July 2012. His name is still a classic in the literature of his science and he was in his time a man of high international repute. In regard to religion he was, like Goeth, a pantheist, as he shows particularly in his Aanden i Naturen (2 vols. 1849)..
  18. http://ffrf.org/day/?day=6&month=8 Freethought of the Day, 6 August 2006, Alfred Tennyson
  19. Book: Chevigny, Bell Gale . 1994 . 1976 . The Woman and the Myth: Margaret Fuller's Life and Writings . Revised and expanded . Boston . Northeastern University Press . 169 . 1-55553-182-2 . But pantheism and repudiation of dogma had two adverse effects: it made some of her writing diffuse to the point of unintelligibility and some spiritually unacceptable to her editors..
  20. Book: Bismarck, Otto von . Hamerow . Theodore S. . Theodore S. Hamerow . 1968 . Reflections and Reminiscences . New York . Harper Torchbooks . 15 . I left school at Easter, 1832, a normal product of our state system of education; a Pantheist, and if not a Republican, at least with the persuasion that the Republic was the most rational form of government…..
  21. Howe, Daniel Walker, What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815–1848., p. 623.
  22. Harding and Bode, eds., The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau, 294. "I was born to be a pantheist."
  23. Book: Hittell. John. A Plea For Pantheism. C. Blanchard. 1857.
  24. Rancour-Laferriere, Daniel (2007). Tolstoy's Quest for God. New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers. p. 177.
  25. "I am a pantheist" Interviews, Robert G. Ingersoll, p. 246.
  26. Book: Allison, Lincoln . Lincoln Allison . 1991 . Ecology and Utility: The Philosophical Dilemmas of Planetary Management . Rutherford, Madison, and Teaneck . Fairleigh Dickinson University Press . 28 . 0-8386-3490-7 . Haeckel's revival of Pantheism is a neat and attractive trick which portrays man as ascending from the swamp, rather than descending from the heavens. But God was already in the swamp, as he is in us..
  27. Book: Friedrich Nietzsche .
  28. Book: Heidegger, Martin . Netzsche . 1961 . Verlag Gunther Neske . Pfullingen . Krell . David Farrell . Internet Archive. Alternative Access: Web site: Here . Reviewing Discussion of that topic (Audio; 3h) on the Internet Archive: Web site: Review .
  29. Book: Reading Nietzsche: An Analysis of "Beyond Good and Evil" . 978-1-317-49361-7 . Burnham . Douglas . 5 December 2014 . Routledge .
  30. Book: Reading Nietzsche: An Analysis of "Beyond Good and Evil" . 978-1-317-49361-7 . Burnham . Douglas . 5 December 2014 . Routledge .
  31. Book: In the Shadow of the Bomb: Bethe, Oppenheimer, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist. 2000. Princeton University Press. 978-0-691-04989-2. Silvan S. Schweber. 86. 3. There is another thread that tied Felix Klein to Wilhelm von Humboldt: his belief in a preestablished harmony. With Klein and his fellow mathematicians, the Leibnizian preestablished harmony became more specific. It became a preestablished harmony between physics and mathematics and the foundation of their pantheistic faith.. https://archive.org/details/inshadowofbombbe00schw.
  32. Web site: Nikola Tesla Physics: WSM Explains Nikola Tesla Inventions. Pictures Nikola Tesla Inventions. spaceandmotion.com. 25 May 2016.
  33. Book: Gustav Mahler: Volume 3. Vienna: Triumph and Disillusion (1904–1907). https://archive.org/details/gustavmahler02lagr. registration. 1995. Oxford University Press. 978-0-19-315160-4. 455. Henry-Louis de La Grange. May–August 1906. His pantheistic beliefs made him see the manifestations of God's will everywhere, and sensed its 'miracles and secrets ... and contemplated them with the deep respect and touching astonishment of a child'..
  34. Book: Claude Debussy: His Life and Works. 1933. Oxford University Press, H. Milford. 225. Léon Vallas. He made a pantheistic profession of faith: I do not practise religion in accordance with the sacred rites. I have made mysterious Nature my religion. I do not believe that a man is any nearer to God for being clad in priestly garments, nor that one place in a town is better adapted to meditation than another. When I gaze at a sunset sky and spend hours contemplating its marvelous ever-changing beauty, an extraordinary emotion overwhelms me. Nature in all its vastness is truthfully reflected in my sincere though feeble soul. Around me are the trees stretching up their branches to the skies, the perfumed flowers gladdening the meadow, the gentle grass-carpetted earth, ... and my hands unconsciously assume an attitude of adoration. ... To feel the supreme and moving beauty of the spectacle to which Nature invites her ephemeral guests! ... that is what I call prayer.. Léon Vallas.
  35. Book: Barnett, Andrew . 2007 . Sibelius . New Haven and London . Yale University Press . 352 . 978-0-300-11159-0.
  36. Andrew Reid Fuller, Psychology and Religion: Eight Points of View, p. 111, "Jungian pantheism"
  37. Spencer, John, "New Heavens, New Earth, 2002, p 25 "It was from this pantheistic world-view that the famous psychologist Carl Jung developed his notion of a "collective unconscious,""
  38. Jung and World Religions. 10.1080/1361767970180112. 1997. Kay. William K.. Journal of Beliefs & Values. 18. 109–112.
  39. Book: The Gate of Light: Janusz Korczak, the Educator and Writer Who Overcame the Holocaust. 1994. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. 978-0-8386-3523-0. Adir Cohen. 75. Korczak's God is a pantheistic one, embracing the entire world..
  40. Einstein, Albert "Gelegentliches", Soncino Gesellschaft, Berlin, 1929, p. 9, ""This firm belief, a belief bound up with a deep feeling, in a superior mind that reveals itself in the world of experience, represents my conception of God. In common parlance this may be described as "pantheistic" (Spinoza)."
  41. Isaacson, Walter (2008). Einstein: His Life and Universe. New York: Simon and Schuster, pp. 388–389. Reported by The New York Times 25 April 1929 under the headline "Einstein believes in 'Spinoza's God'"
  42. G. S. Viereck, Glimpses of the Great (Macauley, New York, 1930) p. 372-373.
  43. Book: Rabi, Scientist and Citizen. 2000. Harvard University Press. 978-0-674-00435-1. John S. Rigden. 229. Rabi is deeply religious. Eschewing religious practices, and an anthropomorphic concept of God, Rabi has what Einstein referred to as a "cosmic religious feeling" — a religious sense that transcends dogma and institutions..
  44. Book: Sawin, Martica . Martica Sawin . 2009 . Leon Kelly: An American Surrealist . New York City . Francis Naumann Fine Art . 20 . 978-0-9800556-1-0 . 'My father was a pantheist, if anything,' his daughter Paula said..
  45. "We are now sufficiently advanced to consider resources other than materialistic, but they are tenuous, intangible, and vulnerable to misapplication. They are, in fact, the symbols of spiritual life – a vast impersonal pantheism – transcending the confused myths and prescriptions that are presumed to clarify ethical and moral conduct. The clear realities of nature seen with the inner eye of the spirit reveal the ultimate echo of God. ..." – Book: Adams, Ansel . My Camera in the National Parks . Ansel Adams . 1950 . Houghton Mifflin . Boston . 97 . https://archive.today/20120711010652/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1170/is_n5_v27/ai_19701018/?tag=untagged . 11 July 2012 . 30 June 2009 .
  46. "As an unabashed pantheist I am naturally a full-blooded transubstantiationist, knowing full well that the ground wheat of bread and crushed grapes of wine are the body and blood of Christ, the Anointed One, or olive-oiled man who is so slippery that he has no hangups." – Book: Watts, Alan . In My Own Way: An Autobiography . Alan Watts . 2007 . New World Library . 978-1-57731-584-1 . 72 . 30 June 2009.
  47. Web site: Pete Seeger's Session. Beliefnet, Inc.. 16 August 2013. Wendy Schuman. I feel most spiritual when I'm out in the woods. I feel part of nature. Or looking up at the stars. [I used to say] I was an atheist. Now I say, it's all according to your definition of God. According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something I'm listening to God..
  48. Book: Paris, Barry . Barry Paris . 2001 . Audrey Hepburn . New York City . Berkley Books . 978-1-101-12778-0.
  49. Book: Sagan, Carl . Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science . Reprint . Originally published 1979 . 1980 . Ballantine Books . New York . 978-0-345-33689-7 . 428008204 . 78021810 . 330. Broca's Brain (book) . Some people think God is an outsized, light-skinned male with a long white beard, sitting on a throne somewhere up there in the sky, busily tallying the fall of every sparrow. Others—for example Baruch Spinoza and Albert Einstein—considered God to be essentially the sum total of the physical laws which describe the universe. I do not know of any compelling evidence for anthropomorphic patriarchs controlling human destiny from some hidden celestial vantage point, but it would be madness to deny the existence of physical laws..
  50. Book: Margulis . Lynn . Sagan . Dorion . Lynn Margulis . Dorion Sagan . 2007 . Dazzle Gradually: Reflections on the Nature of Nature . White River Junction . Chelsea Green Publishing Company . 14 . 978-1-933392-31-8 . My father believed in the God of Spinoza and Einstein, God not behind nature but as nature, equivalent to it..
  51. Web site: Montevideo Portal Biografía novelada. Montevideo Portal. 7 October 2013. Commandant Facundo tells about the life of Jose 'Pepe' Mujica and his exceptional path: from playful and working child, to revolted and in love young, from fighter and political militant to pantheist, earth-lover farmer." (Original Spanish: "Comandante Facundo narra la vida de José Pepe Mujica y su trayectoria excepcional: de niño travieso y trabajador, a joven rebelde y enamorado; de combatiente y militante político, a panteísta cultivador amante de la tierra.).
  52. Web site: Suicide: How the godfathers of punk kept the faith. The Jewish Chronicle. Paul Lester. 10 October 2008. Vega is similarly ambivalent. He alludes to the "miraculous" nature of his career with Suicide and fateful meeting with Rev, begging the question – does he believe in a higher power? "I distrust the name 'God' but, yes, I do believe in a higher power," he says. He adds that he shares the rationalist stance of Spinoza, the 17th-century Jewish philosopher and "pantheist theologian". "God is in all of us," he says, before deciding: "There is an immense power. There has to be.".
  53. Sweetman, Brendan. 2003. Infinite Minds: A Philosophical Cosmology. International Philosophical Quarterly. 42. 2. 250–252. 10.5840/ipq200343216.
  54. Book: Messner, Reinhold . Carruthers . Tim . 2014 . My Life at the Limit . Seattle . Mountaineers Books . 978-1-59485-853-6 . I didn't become a Tibetan Buddhist; I remained a pantheist..
  55. Web site: Michio Kaku believes in God, if not that God. Robby Berman. 15 February 2018. 29 July 2020. One god is a personal god, the god that you pray to, the god that smites the Philistines, the god that walks on water. That's the first god. But there's another god, and that's the god of Spinoza. That's the god of beauty, harmony, simplicity..
  56. Web site: Interview: Chris Goodall, economist and author. Terence Handley MacMath. 1 September 2010. 29 July 2020. I don't pray in the conventional sense any more, but try to replace my lack of prayer with a sense of awe in God and that Spirit all around us, trying to be receptive to God in everything..
  57. News: Mark Rylance: Height of his powers. Appleyard. Bryan.
  58. Web site: A Lifetime Of Planting Trees On A Remote River Island: Meet India's Forest Man. Julie McCarthy. NPR. 26 December 2017. 29 July 2020. I see God in nature. Nature is God. It gives me inspiration. It gives me power … As long as it survives, I survive..
  59. Web site: Metallica's James Hetfield Reveals: Does He Believe In God? . Ustaer . Feyyaz . 17 January 2017 . Metalhead Zone . TG Media . 16 February 2022 . I believe in a higher power, yes. I don′t know … he, she, it … whatever … I see it everywhere. It is everything to me..
  60. 5 November 2021 . Change Your Religion If It Tells You To Be Cruel . Diekmeyer . Kadie Karen . YouTube . 26 March 2022 . video .
  61. Web site: 'There is great wisdom in the teaching of Jesus', says Elon Musk . Lee . Jennifer . 4 January 2022 . . 16 February 2022 . As Einstein would say, "I believe in the God of Spinoza," he said, referencing Einstein's belief in Spinoza's God who reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists, not in a God who concerns himself with fates and actions of human beings..
  62. Web site: The Gaahl!: A black metal moment . Davis . Erik . Erik Davis . 11 October 2007 . Techgnosis . 16 February 2022 . They drink wine, and Gaahl talks about pantheistic stuff like the God in nature and the God within..
  63. Web site: Leviathan: Demos 2000. Voegtlin . Stewart . 10 June 2005 . . 16 February 2022 . Gaahl extrapolated on the importance of pantheism, and how one's love of nature is an important—and mostly overlooked—facet of the ideology that informs and empowers Black Metal..
  64. Book: Buck, L. . The Roman Monster: An Icon of the Papal Antichrist In Reformation Polemics . Penn State University Press . Early Modern Studies . 2014 . 978-0-271-09099-3 . 2023-06-10 . 39.
  65. Book: Smith, V.S. . Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity . Oxford University Press . 2008 . 978-0-19-953208-7 . 2023-06-10 . 271.