Pantheistic religions

[RajputMaster24]

What religions can be regarded as pantheistic religions? Is it true that Ancient Greek Philosophy had hints of pantheism in its core teachings?

 

[George-ananda]

Advaita Vedanta is pantheistic. It is all Brahman.

 

[Ouroboros]

What religions can be regarded as pantheistic religions? Is it true that Ancient Greek Philosophy had hints of pantheism in its core teachings?

Some. There were many different competing philosophies in ancient Greek.

Heraclitus is considered, not only one of the first philosophers before Plato, Socrates, and such, but also the first pantheist on record.

I think the Stoics were kind'a atheistic.

Aristotle or Socrates (can't remember which one) talked about the ultimate good, like the sun or center, which you can't look at. I see some similarities there to Tao.

The followers of Archimedes believed in more spiritual things. Numbers, arithmetics, forms, etc, were magical.

If I remember these things right. And there were other groups. Also, the society in general was more polytheistic, if I'm not mistaken.

 

[idav]

Gnostic christianity can be pantheistic, was blasphemous back in the days of the Nicene Creed.

 

[RajputMaster24]

Thanks for the replies my friends. Do you think that some schools of Daoism are pantheistic? And yes George-Ananda, Advaita vedanta is pantheistic and dvaita vedanta or in other words--vaishnavism is monotheistic. Can you think of any other religions that are pantheistic?

 

[Jainarayan]

It could be argued that Heathenry (Germanic/Norse Paganism) is pantheistic. Everything is considered divine and of divine origin... "stuff monism". Here's a brief write up:

Pantheism is the perception that spirit and divinity dwell within the world rather than apart from it. As the Roman historian Tacitus said of the Germanic tribes, “Their holy places are the woods and groves, and they apply the names of deities to that hidden presence which is seen only by the eye of reverence.”[1] The invisible, spiritual world is not somehow separate from the visible, tangible world, but instead exists “in its heart,” to borrow the words of the French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty.[2] To put it another way: the visible world is the flesh of the invisible gods.

http://norse-mythology.org/concepts/pantheism/

 

[Quintessence]

Contemporary Pagan theologies on the whole tend to be pantheistic, as did historical and indigenous Paganisms. The notion of "god" being separate from the world (or "creation" being categorically distinct from "creator") is a relatively Abrahamic idea, far as I'm aware.

 

[Terese]

Vedanta is pantheistic

 

[idav]

The notion of "god" being separate from the world (or "creation" being categorically distinct from "creator") is a relatively Abrahamic idea, far as I'm aware.

Thats why all the fuss for the trinity work around in Christianity, their way of reconciling humans with god.

 

[RajputMaster24]

Thanks for the replies my friends. Is it true that some schools of Daoism are pantheistic and some schools are polytheistic?