pantheist
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a person who embraces pantheism, the doctrine that God is the ultimate transcendent, spiritual, impersonal reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations.
The pantheist says that only God exists and objects are mere modes of God’s attributes, while Baha’ism says that objects have a separate reality created by God.
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a person who embraces any religious belief or philosophical doctrine holding that God is identical with the universe.
For the pantheist, nothing is more worthy of reverence, or even worship, than the awesome power and beauty of the cosmos itself.
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Etymology
Origin of pantheist
First recorded in 1700–10; panthe(ism) ( def. ) + -ist ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Not affiliated with any specific recognized church is certainly part of it, but I’m more comfortable saying that I’m a pantheist.
From Los Angeles Times • May 19, 2022
The biography, newly updated, of a mystical pantheist whose sublimely terrifying stories include “The Wendigo” and “The Willows.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 27, 2018
Prose poems they were, confessions of a pantheist, romantic, mystic— Yester and Li, The Sea, The Fool.
From Time Magazine Archive
Poet Jeffers unfolds just such a story,* with the high seriousness of a prophetic pantheist.
From Time Magazine Archive
In so far as Shelley gives to nature the attributes of God he is a pantheist.
From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by MacDonald, Daniel J.
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