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Theopanism (from Greek: Θεός Theos, "God" and πᾶν pan, "all") is a religious term by which, as one author puts it, "the meaning given the word God is of an entity that is not separate from the universe."

ne may distinguish pantheism, which imagines the world as an absolute being ("everything is God"), from theopanism, which conceives of God as the true spiritual reality from which everything emanates: "God becomes everything", necessarily, incessantly, without beginning and without end. Theopanism is (with only a few other dualistic systems) the most common way in which Hindu philosophy conceives God and the world.^[1]

"Theopanism includes among its major concepts pantheism and panentheism."^[2]

See also

• God becomes the Universe
• Mordechai Nessyahu
• Pandeism
• Spiritual naturalism
• Baruch Spinoza
• Universal Pantheist Society

References

External links

• Why I Believe in God by John J. Lanier, The Builder Magazine, April 1927 - Volume XIII - Number 4

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