Pantheism

Pantheism is the view that the world is either identical to God, or an expression of God's nature. It comes from 'pan' meaning  all, and 'theism', which means belief in God. So according to pantheism, "God is everything and everything is God". The term 'pantheism' was coined by the Irish freethinker John  Toland in 1705. Pantheism is variedly described concept. One of the modern critic Schopenhauer said, "Pantheism has no ethics", but the pantheists believes that pantheism is the more ethical view point. They hold an ideology that any harm done to another is doing harm to oneself, because what harms one harms all.
There are different types of pantheism such as classical pantheism, biblical pantheism, naturalistic pantheism, Cosmotheism and Pandeism. According to traditional Western conception of God, God is transcendent but pantheists reject the idea and according to them God does not transcend the world. Pantheists  also reject the idea of God's personhood. The pantheist God is not a personal God, the kind of entity that could have beliefs, desires, intentions or agency. Pantheistic God does not have a will and cannot act in or upon the universe. For the pantheist, God is non-personal divinity that provides all existence. It is the divine unity of the world. Love of nature is often associated with pantheism. Self-professed pantheists like Wordsworth, Whitman, and other romantic poets certainly had a deep love of nature, but that was not necessarily the case for pantheistic likes Spinoza and Lao Tzu. Nevertheless, for some pantheists the idea that nature is something that inspires awe, wonder and reverence is important.

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