pantheism

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Introduction
Nature and significance
- Immanence or transcendence
- Monism, dualism, or pluralism
- Time or eternity
- The world as sentient or insentient
- God as absolute or relative
- The world as real or illusory
- Freedom or determinism
- Sacramentalism or secularism
Diverse views of the relation of God to the world
- Hylozoistic pantheism
- Immanentistic pantheism
- Absolutistic monistic pantheism
- Relativistic monistic pantheism
- Acosmic pantheism
- Identity of opposites pantheism
- Classical theism
- Neoplatonic or emanationistic pantheism
- Panentheism
Pantheism and panentheism in non-Western cultures
- Hindu doctrines
- Buddhist doctrines
- Ancient Middle Eastern doctrines
Pantheism and panentheism in ancient and medieval philosophy
- Greco-Roman doctrines
- Medieval doctrines
Pantheism and panentheism in modern philosophy
- Renaissance and post-Renaissance doctrines
- Nineteenth-century doctrines
  - German idealism
  - Monism and panpsychism
- Versions since the early 20th century
Criticism and evaluation of pantheism and panentheism

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