Meanings
neo-pantheism1
plural neo-pantheisms · alternative neopantheism · alternative Neopantheism · alternative neo-Pantheism · alternative Neo-Pantheism
- Any revived or reconceived variation of pantheism, the belief that the Universe is sacred and should be revered; any of a number of modern form of present day renditions of pantheism, as distinguished from earlier perspectives.
The "Trinitarian" World of Neo-Pantheism: On Panentheism and Epistemology
2004, Philip Clayton, Arthur Robert Peacocke, Religion, In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Being, page 1315 more examples
The founders of Neo-Pantheism... have no wish for a moment to depreciate the world that has gone before them; and, therefore, not that portion of it which, though they know it not, still subsists in pristine strength, and will alone survive the coming catastrophe!
1838, Nicholas Patrick Wiseman, editor, The Dublin Review, page 353But Aristotle's Absolute had personality without will; the Absolute of German neo-pantheism has, or rather is, will without personality; for originally it is without self-consciousness.
1906, Alfred William Benn, The History of English Rationalism in the Nineteenth Century, volume I, Longmans, Green, and Co., pages 243–244Neither the God of the old Pantheism nor that of the neo-pantheism of Froebel is the all-seeing, all-loving Father to whom the weary and the suffering turn for rest and consolation.
1912, Mary Fisher, A Valiant Woman: A Contribution to the Educational Problem, Thomas Y. Crowell Company, page 242This neo-pantheism is wide-spread enough to induce one of our leading publishing houses to reprint Seeley's "Natural Religion," a treatise once famous but lately out of print.
1917, Durant Drake, “The God of the Future is in the Making”, in Current Opinion, page 246Science perhaps never slid as far into neo-pantheism and neo-nihilism as Kelvin feared, and many physicists (and others) retained their confidence in the ether well into the 1920s and 1930s.
2002, Bruce Clarke, Linda Dalrymple Hendersonm, From Energy to Information: Representation in Science and Technology, Art and Literature, page 112
neo-Pantheism2
- alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of neo-pantheism.
Neo-Pantheism3
- alternativeuncountableAlternative spelling of neo-pantheism.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*nu
- Proto-Indo-European*néwos
- Proto-Hellenic*néwos
- Ancient Greekνέος (néos)
- Ancient Greekνεο- (neo-)
- Englishneo-
- Englishpantheism
- Englishneo-pantheism
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