pantheistic

American  

[pan-thee-is-tik] / ˌpæn θiˈɪs tɪk /

Sometimes pantheist

adjective

1. relating to or embracing pantheism, the doctrine that God is the transcendent, spiritual, impersonal reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations.

   Some Hindus are pantheistic, believing that just as all the various gods are aspects of the one true God, so is everything else in creation.

2. relating to or embracing any religious belief or philosophical doctrine that God is identical with the universe.

   The radical sect combines vegetarianism, naturopathy, and belief in a pantheistic God personifying the natural order of things.

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Other Word Forms

• nonpantheistic
  adjective
• nonpantheistical
  adjective
• nonpantheistically
  adverb
• pantheistically
  adverb
• unpantheistic
  adjective
• unpantheistical
  adjective
• unpantheistically
  adverb

Etymology

Origin of pantheistic

First recorded in 1730–40; pantheist ( def. ) + -ic ( def. )

Example Sentences

Both are spiritual, and both democratic; both by their works recall, even to so untaught and tentative a student as I am, the fragments vouchsafed to us of the Pantheistic poetry of the East.

From William Blake A Critical Essay by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

The Brahmin contemplated the moment when his spirit would flow back into the great "Pantheistic Being."

From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, Volume 1, January, 1880 by Walker, Aaron

We have a professed science of Atheism, another of Deism, a Pantheistic, ever so many Christian theologies, to say nothing of Judaism, Islamism, and the Oriental religions.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by Newman, John Henry

The Pantheistic Carlyle grumbles at his levity and rails against his persiflage.

From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper

Eleatic Philosophy presents a great Advance, indicating a rapid Approach to Oriental Ideas.—It assumes a Pantheistic Aspect.

From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by Draper, John William