(May 16, 2012 at 11:32 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(May 16, 2012 at 10:28 pm)FallentoReason Wrote: Does pantheism exist purely in the minds of those who believe it, or have there been 'holy books' that deal with this philosophy?Spinoza comes to mind. He was a pantheist and a Jewish believer. Or so I've always thought.
I did some research and according to Wikipedia, the name was first coined by British mathematician Joseph Raphson ('co-founder' of the Newton-Raphson method). I'm actually not surprised it was a mathematician that was thinking along the lines of what is now Pantheism.
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
