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pan-deism

pan-deism is the alternative spelling of pandeism.

Meaning of pandeism

Noun

pandeism (countable and uncountable, plural pandeisms)

  1. A belief in a god who is both pantheistic and deistic, in particular a god who designed the universe and then became it and ceased to exist separately and act consciously with respect to it.
    • Just as [absolute perfection in some respects, relative perfection in all others] is the whole positive content of perfection, so CW, or the conception of the Creator-and-the-Whole-of-what-he-has-created as constituting one life, the super-whole which in its everlasting essence is uncreated (and...1941, Charles Hartshorne, Man’s Vision of God and the Logic of Theism, New York, N.Y.: Harper and Bros., →OCLC, page 348
  2. (rare) Worship which admits or tolerates favourable aspects of all religions; omnitheism.
    • We hear men prophesy that this war means the death of Christianity and an era of Pandeism or perhaps even the destruction of all which we call modern civilization and culture. We hear men predict that the ultimate result of the war will be a blessing to humanity.1915 May, Louis S. Hardin, “The Chimerical Application of Machiavelli’s Principles”, in James H. Coghill, editor, The Yale Sheffield Monthly, volume XXI, number 8, New Haven, Conn.: Sheffield...

Noun (1) capitalized: Pan-Deism

Pan-Deism (uncountable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative spelling of pandeism.

Noun (2) capitalized: Pan-deism

Pan-deism (uncountable)

  1. (alternative) Alternative spelling of pandeism.

Questions about pan-deism

What is pan-deism the alternative spelling of?
Pan-deism is the alternative spelling of pandeism.
What part of speech is pan-deism?
Pan-deism is a noun.

Words near pan-deism in the dictionary

  1. pan-broiling
  2. pan-broils
  3. Pan-ch'iao
  4. pan-Covid
  5. pan-curious
  6. pan-deism
  7. pan-deist
  8. pan-deists
  9. pan-disability
  10. pan-en-theism
  11. pan-en-theist

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