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 Spinoza was infamous for his sometimes inscrutable variety of pantheism, in which God no longer sits outside Nature, paring his fingernails (James Joyce’s joke), but effectively is Nature, inextricable from it. James Wood, The New Yorker, 4 Sep. 2023 While some people might think pantheism is silly, that doesn't matter. Phil Plait, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2011 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
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Noun
  • Modern trans coven leaders are rekindling this charge, fighting transphobia in paganism, and creating covens and magic all on their own.
    Emma Cieslik, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
  • The defense, meanwhile, is hoping to use the placement of the sticks as evidence of their theory the girls were killed not by Allen, but rather in a ritualistic murder, perhaps as part of Odinism, a branch of Norse paganism with a far-right strain.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 28 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • Through it all, the rabbis and imam maintain faith in the ties that bound Judaism and Islam together: a common origin in the Middle East through Abraham; a tradition of strict monotheism emphasizing the oneness of God; a reverence for biblical and Quranic shared prophets from Isaac to Moses.
    Jenny Jarvie, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
  • Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.
    Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • The deity is also linked to earthquakes, thunder, darkness, storms, and death and was widely regarded as the most powerful force of evil in Egyptian theology.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
  • Adrian started out as a theology student, but the stakes of Mann’s novel are not, at heart, theological—Adrian has a maddening case of syphilis, and that is the secular portal through which Mephistopheles makes his entry.
    James Wood, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Also, Akhenaten’s successor tried to steer religion back to polytheism, which is contrary to Nefertiti’s earlier views.
    Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 1 May 2024
  • Nor does the divide between Mesopotamian polytheism and Jewish monotheism pose a problem.
    Esther Brownsmith, The Conversation, 21 Mar. 2024
Noun
  • While most of the Empire was being immersed in a religion which was a synthesis of Roman institutions, Greek philosophy and Hebrew theism, a subset of the population of philosophical inclination was being drawn into a religious system descended from Hellenistic paganism.
    Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 10 Aug. 2012
  • Another frequent topic of disbelief among Edge responders was theism and its anti-science offshoots---in particular the belief in intelligent design, and the belief that the Earth is only a few thousand years old.
    Jennifer Welsh, Discover Magazine, 23 Nov. 2010
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
  • By contrast, animation foregrounds the pictorial, which is its own aesthetic doctrine.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 8 Nov. 2024
  • Russia’s nuclear doctrine holds that an attack on any element of its deterrent force justifies a nuclear response.
    William M. Moon, Foreign Affairs, 5 Nov. 2024

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