pantheism

Pantheism is the child of light; mist engenders faith in near protectors.

It has degenerated into pantheism, but has again emerged.

Regardless of his literary choices, Tarar is on record having voiced his fascination with Attar, the 12th century Nishapur mystic who was bitten by the bug of pantheism, though certainly not at the same level as, say, Mansur Hallaj who remains the epitome of that thought stream.

Smith Gilson addresses this issue in the second chapter, by developing an account of an "engodded" metaphysics that at once respects the fundamental difference between God and human beings (she takes care to distinguish her position from pantheism), while affirming the ultimate union of God's being with "the living existential act of each being." God is not a maximally universal being in need of subsequent mediation with particular experiences.

In fact, Hegel's poem "Eleusis," which focuses on a Spinozist being, represents "oceanic pantheism" (Bowman, "Spinozist" 93).

(Just read Sally Quinn's tales of murderous hexes in her recent memoir to recall how old-fashioned in their magical thinking the New Age's devotees could become.) Sometimes our own elite opinion seems to be shopping for a new religion: I have read books in the last year pitching versions of Buddhism, pantheism and paganism to the post-Christian educated set.

He asserts in one place, "theistic evolutionists get their pantheism honest" (p.

As an abiding subtext, he continues to explore his special ruminations on the expansive joys of Pantheism. In my discussion of his earlier masterpiece, the poem "Madness," I postulated "erotic pantheism" as the hidden theology of the work's natural order.

It represents a middle-ground position between pantheism and classical theism.