Theopanism

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Theopanism (Greek: Theos = God, pan = all) was first used as a technical term by the Jesuits in elucidating Hinduism. "[O]ne may distinguish pantheism, which imagines the world as an absolute being ("everything is God"), from theopanism, which conceives of God as the true spiritual reality from which everything eminates: "God becomes everything", necessarily, incessantly, without beginning and without end. Theopanism is (with only a few other dualistic systems) the most common way in which Hindu philosophy conceives God and the world." (Civita Cattolica, 5, July, 1930, pp. 17-8, in Antonio Gramsci, "The Prison Notebooks", p. 121.)

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• Why I Believe in God by John J. Lanier, The Builder Magazine, April 1927 - Volume XIII - Number 4

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Collective unconscious Cosmology Cosmotheism Emergence Hinduism Holism Kabbalah Infinitism Mordekhay Nesiyahu

Naturalistic spirituality Oneness Ranters Spinoza Sufism Tao Unitarian Universalism Universal Pantheist Society World Pantheist Movement

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