Publisher's Synopsis
All Is God to a Pantheist that equates God and Nature as the same thing due to the philosophies of Spinoza and many other influential thinkers. Philosophical thinking and all religious thought reference Pantheism in their own unique way. Going back to Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Paganism reference God in their own way that is thought of as Pantheism. Ancient philosophy of Heraclitus, Stoics, and Neoplatonists contemplate the infinite substance that exists everywhere as God and the Universe. The modern philosophy of Giordano Bruno, Spinoza, and John Toland introduce Pantheism to the Western thought. Today there are many Pantheists that have many ways of thinking about God and the Universe due to the historical influences that brought Pantheism to the present.