pantheism

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Recent Examples of pantheism In 1809, Friedrich’s budding pantheism landed him in hot water. Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 28 June 2024 If anyone is wondering, stoicism and pantheism are my preferred lenses through to view the world. Christa Allen, Allure, 28 May 2021 There’s a scene in The Wolf Gift where Reuben is staring up at the stars and musing about the nature of God, and his ruminations there almost seem to be a cosmic pantheism or something. Geek's Guide To The Galaxy, WIRED, 18 Apr. 2012 While some people might think pantheism is silly, that doesn't matter. Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2011
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pantheism
Noun
  • Raphael envisioned his design as a series of murals depicting the triumph of Christianity over paganism: The Vision of the Cross, The Battle of the Milvian Bridge, The Baptism of Constantine and The Donation of Rome.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 July 2025
  • Leland presented European material as the survival of an ancient pagan cult—moreover, a paganism that had been demonized by Christianity.
    Angelica Frey, JSTOR Daily, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • For instance, according to Alawite beliefs, Ali, the son-in-law of Prophet Muhammad, is a divine manifestation of God, which challenges the idea of strict monotheism central to Sunni Islam.
    Güneş Murat Tezcür, The Conversation, 23 July 2025
  • Freud, too, proposed that Moses was an Egyptian prince who invented monotheism (or stole it from Akhenaten).
    Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Brad Braxton is the president and professor of public theology at the Chicago Theological Seminary.
    Brad Braxton, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2025
  • If so, the theology is a little wonky but the filmmaking has an undoubtedly visionary swagger.
    Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 27 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The Pope's polytheism places him among the people of Hell.
    Ross Rosenfeld, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Apr. 2025
  • Religious history Fascinating finds related to religious history tell a story of diverse belief systems from the polytheism of the ancient Greeks and Romans to Buddhism and Christianity.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The Chinese Communists aren’t trying to extirpate every last trace of theism, thereby inviting the undivided opposition of religious believers and institutions (as the Soviets did with regard to John Paul II’s Vatican).
    Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 21 Feb. 2021
  • Thoreau moves fluidly between the two, shuttling between the divine and the here-and-now, between theism and materialism.
    Longreads, Longreads, 13 July 2017
Noun
  • This vague gesture in the direction of deism has no antecedent in the book, no moral or theological trajectory to make Bambi’s insight meaningful or satisfying.
    Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 17 Jan. 2022
  • Those intuitions usually commended a staid deism and scorn for those whose beliefs extended any further.
    Jeffrey Collins, WSJ, 12 Mar. 2021
Noun
  • In another example, Francis came out in support of civil unions for same-sex couples, something previously opposed by the Vatican’s doctrine office.
    Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images Because on August 29, a federal appellate court shut the door on that doctrine.
    Brett Erickson, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Sep. 2025

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