PANTHEISM

(Yunanca köken — orijinale bakınız.) In Metaage. physical Theology, the theory which identifies nature, or the ri irav, the universe in its totality, with God. This and its doctrine differs from atheism in the greater distinctne with which it a erts the unity and e ential vitality of allow nature, parts of which all animated beings are. The apostles most ancient Greek philosophers were pantheists in this j duct appeared sense, Anaxagoras being the first who distinctly stated the lead the coexistence with nature of a reasonable creator — " a the Holy mind, the principle of all things." In this sense, too, j interfering Spinoza may be called a pantheist. The pantheism of Cyprian Schelling, and many modern German philosophers, is of concert a different stamp. According to these thinkers, God is Roman. conceived as the absolute and original Being, revealing \ 2. It himself variously In outward nature, and in human In tell i-; stantial gence and freedom. It is not easy to see how pantheism! nition* VII. (1073-1086), that the principle of temporal aggrandizement, which we have been tracing, received a systematic development. The grand project which that prelate entertained was, to reduce the whole territory of Christen dom to n feudal subjection to the holy see. He a umed the right ol appointment to all the crowns of Europe; and with such succe that when his principal opponent, Henry IV. of Germany, had succeeded in dispo e ing him of his pontifical chair, and placing therein the antipope, Clement HI., the victorious monarch continued to recognise, in the creature whom he had thus installed in the papal prerogatives. 884 [s. 897]