different between pantheism vs transcendentalism

English

Etymology

From pan- +? Ancient Greek ???? (theós, “god, divine”) +? -ism. The term "pantheist" - of which "pantheism" is a variation - was purportedly first used by Irish writer John Toland in his 1705 work, Socinianism Truly Stated, by a pantheist. A critic of Toland, J. Fay, was the first to use the term "pantheism" in 1709, in Defensio Religionis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pæn.?i.?z.?m/
• Hyphenation: pan?the?ism

Alternative forms

• sometimes hyphenated: pan-theism
• sometimes capitalized: Pantheism

Noun

pantheism (countable and uncountable, plural pantheisms)

1. (religion) The belief that the Universe is in some sense divine and should be revered. Pantheism identifies the universe with God but denies any personality or transcendence of such a God.
2. (rare, religion) The belief in all gods; omnitheism.

Quotations

• See Citations:pantheism

Hyponyms

• neo-pantheism

Derived terms

Related terms

• pandeism
• panentheism
• theism

Translations

English

Etymology

transcendental +? -ism

Noun

transcendentalism (countable and uncountable, plural transcendentalisms)

1. The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
2. Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
3. A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
4. A movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.

Related terms

• philosophy
• religion
• transcendental
• transcendentalist

Translations

See also

• transcendentalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Wikibooks: Transcendentalist Theology

Romanian

Etymology

From French transcendantalisme

Noun

transcendentalism n (uncountable)

1. transcendentalism

Declension