PantheismPantheism
holds that God is in the world or, rather, God is the world. It stresses
the <!g>immanence of God in the world. There are several kinds of pantheism. The
Greek philosopher <!g>Parmenides is famous for explicating what is known as absolute
pantheism. This asserted that there was only one being in the universe and
everything else was non-being. Another ancient source, Plotinus, was believed to
be an exponent of emanational pantheism, in that
everything flows from God the way a flower unfolds from a seed. The most obvious
example of this kind of thought in the contemporary climate is Hinduism, a manifestational
pantheism; that all things are, in some sense, divine and to be venerated as
such.
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by: Richard P Whaite
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