List of pantheists

This table lists individuals that at least one of three sources has defined as having pantheistic beliefs.

Name Levine 2007[1] Levine 1994[2] pantheism.net[3] Other
Ansel Adams (1902–1984) - - - writes about it[4]
Margaret Atwood (b. 1939) - - Famous Pantheists[3]  ?[5]
Ralph Waldo Emerson [1] - [6] -
Eriugena [1] [2] - -
Hegel [1]  ?[2] [6] -
Robinson Jeffers [1] - [6] -
D. H. Lawrence [1] - - -
Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling [1] - - -
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) - - [6] radicalacademy.com[7]
Lao Tzu [1] - - [6] -
Alan Watts (1915-1973) - - - self[8]
Walt Whitman (1819–1891) [1] - [6] radicalacademy.com[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i Levine, Michael (2007-05-17). "Pantheism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)". http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pantheism/. Retrieved 2010-03-07. "Other possible pantheists include some of the Presocratics; Plato; Lao Tzu; Plotinus; Schelling; Hegel; Bruno, Eriugena and Tillich." 
  2. ^ a b c Levine, Michael P.; 1994; Pantheism: A Non-theistic Concept of Deity; Routledge, 1994; ISBN 0203014774, 9780203014776
  3. ^ a b The World Pantheist Movement. "Famous Pantheists"
  4. ^ "We are now sufficiently advanced to consider resources other than materialistic, but they are tenuous, intangible, and vulnerable to misapplication. They are, in fact, the symbols of spiritual life -- a vast impersonal pantheism -- transcending the confused myths and prescriptions that are presumed to clarify ethical and moral conduct. The clear realities of nature seen with the inner eye of the spirit reveal the ultimate echo of God...." - Adams, Ansel (1950). My Camera in the National Parks. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. pp. 97. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1170/is_n5_v27/ai_19701018/?tag=untagged. Retrieved June 30th 2009. 
  5. ^ Biblical version, see Genesis: God created the heaven and the earth --- out of nothing, we presume. Or else: out of God, since there was nothing else around that God could use as substance. Big Bang theory: says much the same, without using the word "God." That is: once there was nothing, or else "a singularity." Then Poof. Big Bang. Result: the universe. So since the universe can't be made of anything else, it must be made of singularity-stuff, or God-stuff --- whatever term you wish to employ. Whether this God-stuff was a thought form such as a series of mathematical formulae, an energy form, or some sort of extremely condensed cosmic plasma, is open to discussion. Therefore everything has "God" in it."Atwood, Margaret. "Author Profile: Margaret Atwood". http://www.bookreporter.com/authors/au-atwood-margaret.asp. Retrieved 2009-07-01. 
  6. ^ a b c d e f A History of Pantheism
  7. ^ a b http://radicalacademy.com/amphilosophy4a.htm Article on American Transdendentalism
  8. ^ "As an unabashed pantheist I am naturally a full-blooded transubstantiationist,knowing full well that the ground wheat of bread and crushed grapes of wine are the body and blood of Christ, the Anointed One, or olive-oiled man who is so slippery that he has no hangups." - Watts, Alan (2007). In My Own Way: An Autobiography. New World Library. p. 72. ISBN 978-1577315841. http://books.google.ca/books?id=LzUxodT-klwC&lpg=PA170&ots=LAHVs5lXh5&dq=alan%20watts%20pantheism&pg=PA72. Retrieved June 30th 2009. 

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