Definition of "pantheism" [pan•the•ism]

• A doctrine identifying the Deity with the universe and its phenomena. (noun)
• Belief in and worship of all gods. (noun)

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• ""Everyone is entitled to use terms like ˜pantheism™ as he sees fit," nor does it concern the preciseness of one's "intuitions" as to what pantheism is."
• "The difference between this and pantheism is very slight, in pantheism it is nature that is in and through everything."
• "4 Although James would employ the term pantheism for his own position in A Pluralistic Universe, it is of a highly idiosyncratic variety meaning “indwelling” rather than identified with the All, and unrecognizable to the great bulk of historical pantheists."