Pantheism

Pantheism is the view that God and the world are one. Pantheists hold that God is the world and the world is God. They attribute these elements to be necessary and eternal. This is essentially atheism. It holds the visible world around us to be god. God becomes simply any object or element due to the view that God is all and in all things. There is no pure Pantheism because it has roots in many different systems such as Indian philosophy, Monism, and Emanationism. This view was introduced by John Toland from 1670-1722 in his Socianism Truly Stated in 1705. It was officially published in Pantheisticon in 1732. It was first opposed by Fay in Defensio Religionis in 1709 (See The Catholic Encyclopedia, 1917).