Pantheist in A Sentence

    1

    A pantheist may believe in Law of Nature and go no further; a theist who accepts Law of Nature has a large instalment of natural theology ready made to his hand; including an idealist, or else an intuitionalist, scheme of ethics.

    2

    As a result of this, Kant is metaphysically a sort of pantheist.

    3

    Benedict Spinoza, the eminent Jewish pantheist (1632-1677), to whom miracle is impossible, revelation a phrase, and who renews pioneer work in Old Testament criticism, finds at least a fair measure of liberty and comfort in Holland (his birth-land).

    4

    But he was no atheist, for the pantheist Zeno spoke highly of him.

    5

    The term "pantheist" was apparently first used by John Toland in 1705, and it was at once adopted by French and English writers.

    6

    To some extent, the pantheist too will know what to do to practice pantheism.

    7

    Toland, the inventor of the name of pantheism, was notoriously, for a great part of his life, in some sort a pantheist.

    8

    Whether Xenophanes was a monotheist, whose assertion of the unity of God suggested to Parmenides the doctrine of the unity of Being, or a pantheist, whose assertion of the unity of God was also a declaration of the unity of Being, so that he anticipated Parmenides - in other words, whether Xenophanes's teaching was purely theological or had also a philosophical significance - is a question about which authorities have differed and will probably continue to differ.

    9

    Xenophanes was, then, a pantheist.