Word: pantheist
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John Burke, an atheist, and his wife, a pantheist, had left the line blank. As a result, the bureau denied the Burkes' application. After the couple began court action, however, the bureau changed its regulations, and the couple was able to adopt a baby boy from the Children's Aid and Adoption Society in East Orange...
HOUSES OF GOD by Jeannette Mirsky. 235 pages. Viking. $8.50. Just the thing for the pantheist on the gift list. An ecumenical rundown of all the world's most important places of worship, from the equinoctial siting at Stonehenge to the bland Meditation Room at the United Nations...
...Milton Stanford, a practicing Pantheist,* was first elected to the town council of Brentwood, Md. two years ago. He was sworn in with an oath of office, customary in Brentwood, which contained the phrase "I believe in God." He made no objection at the time but, after thinking it over later on, decided he could not again honestly swear to the statement...
Will-to-Love. Is Albert Schweitzer a Christian? He is certainly not an orthodox one. He subscribes to no creed and has no patience with theological distinctions. His religious thinking and living have character that defies any precise labeling. He is a pantheist, but he is far more than a pantheist. "Every form of living Christianity," he says, "is pantheistic in that it is bound to envisage everything that exists as having its being in the great First Cause of all being." But to him, ethical piety cannot depend upon the impersonal First Cause manifested in nature but upon...
Swift founded the Yosians (rhymes with O'Ryans) as a walking club in 1922. The name is an adaptation of his own. Josiah, which means "Jehovah supports." A pantheist by belief, and an Episcopalian to please his wife, he sees mother nature as "Jehovah in His maternal capacity" healing her children. The first Yosians were readers who wrote in to ask if they might tag along when he took hikes" to hunt material for his column. The dozen nervous nature lovers who first showed up grew into a traipsing mob of 500. The unwieldy crowds have long since been...