Editing Pantheism (section)

==Definitions==

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[[File:NASA-HS201427a-HubbleUltraDeepField2014-20140603.jpg|thumb|Pantheists believe that the universe itself and everything in it form a single, all-encompassing deity.<ref name="Pearsall">{{cite book |last1=Pearsall |first1=Judy |title=The New Oxford Dictionary Of English |date=1998 |publisher=Clarendon Press |isbn=978-0-19-861263-6 |edition=1st |location=Oxford |page=1341}}</ref><ref name="Edwards2">{{cite book |last1=Edwards |first1=Paul |url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofph08edwa |title=Encyclopedia of Philosophy |date=1967 |publisher=Macmillan |location=New York |page=[https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofph08edwa/page/34 34] |url-access=registration}}</ref>]]
There are numerous definitions of pantheism, including: 
* a [[Conceptions of God|theological and philosophical position]] which identifies God with the universe, or regards the universe as a manifestation of God;<ref name="Picton">{{cite book|last=Picton|first=James Allanson|title=Pantheism: its story and significance|year=1905|publisher=Archibald Constable & Co. LTD.|location=Chicago|isbn=978-1419140082|url=https://archive.org/details/pantheismitsstor00pictrich}}</ref> 
* the belief that everything is part of an all-encompassing, immanent God and that all forms of reality may then be considered either mode of that Being, or identical with it;<ref name="Deity">Owen, H. P. ''Concepts of Deity''. London: Macmillan, 1971, p. 65.</ref> and 
* a non-religious philosophical position maintaining that the Universe (in the sense of the totality of all existence) and God are identical.<ref>{{Cite book |title = The New Oxford Dictionary Of English|publisher = Clarendon Press|year = 1998|location = Oxford|page=1341|isbn=978-0-19-861263-6}}</ref>