Pantheism

Peter Forrest

doi:10.18290/rf.2016.64.4-5

Peter Forrest University of New England

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18290/rf.2016.64.4-5

Keywords: wieloświat; panenteizm; panteizm; substancja; religijna cześć

Abstract

In this paper I have had two aims. One was to describe a number of pantheist or near pantheist religious attitudes, including the influence of many worlds theories. The other was to indicate some of the ways we might arrive at Pantheism.

One final remark: when assessing religious positions the intellectual grounds for accepting or rejecting them should, I suggest, be whether they make sense of things, that is, enable us to understand. The ways to Pantheism, or to near Pantheism, should therefore be interpreted as part of a comparison between ways of understanding.

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