Theopanism

{{Short description|Concept that God and the universe are one}} {{More citations needed|date=July 2007}} {{Use dmy dates|date=March 2020}} '''Theopanism''' (from Greek: Θεός ''Theos'', "God" and πᾶν ''pan'', "all") is a religious term by which, as one author puts it, "the meaning given the word God is of an entity that is not separate from the universe."

{{quote|[O]ne may distinguish pantheism, which imagines the world as an absolute being ("everything is God"), from theopanism, which conceives of God as the true spiritual reality from which everything emanates: "God becomes everything", necessarily, incessantly, without beginning and without end. Theopanism is (with only a few other dualistic systems) the most common way in which Hindu philosophy conceives God and the world.<ref>Civita Cattolica, 5, July, 1930, pp. 17-8, in Antonio Gramsci, "The Prison Notebooks", p. 121.</ref>}}

Theopanism includes among its major concepts pantheism and panentheism.<ref>Alvin Jay Reines, ''Polydoxy: explorations in a philosophy of liberal religion'', 1987, p. 77.</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/the_builder_1927_april.htm Why I Believe in God] by John J. Lanier, ''The Builder Magazine'', April 1927 - Volume XIII - Number 4

Category:Pantheism