pantheist

American  

[pan-thee-ist] / ˈpæn θiˌɪst /

noun

1. 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.

2. 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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adjective

1. pantheistic.

Other Word Forms

• pantheistic adjective
• pantheistical adjective

Etymology

Origin of pantheist

First recorded in 1700–10; panthe(ism) ( def. ) + -ist ( def. )

Example Sentences

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

Groups loosely lumped together as the World Soul Movement originated with the synthetic pantheist, neopagan, nature- love and New Age groups that were the rage early in the 21st century.

From Time Magazine Archive

Jack Kerouac has been a happily adoring pantheist who regards the world and man as set and characters in a perpetual movie that God, a heavenly Darryl F. Zanuck. enjoys making and watching.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is deist, pantheist, atheist; he is a materialist—one, however, who conceives matter not as inert, but quick with force.

From A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II. by Gosse, Edmund

Related Words

• agnostic
• atheist