pantheism

pantheism
pantheism (n.) "belief that God and the universe are identical," coined by Irish deist John Toland (1670-1722), from Gk. pan- "all" + theos "god" (see THEA (Cf. Thea)). Toland's word was borrowed into French, which from it formed panthéisme (1712) which returned to English as pantheism "the doctrine that all is god" in 1732 (no evidence that Toland used pantheism). Gk. pantheios meant "common to all gods" (see PANTHEON (Cf. pantheon)). Other words used at various times for similar notions include panentheism, "philosophy founded on the notion that all things are in God" (1874), from German (1828), coined by Karl Christian Friedrich Krause (1781-1832).

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