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Sir James A. Picton
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Pantheism, Its Story and Significance
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Pantheism, Its Story and Significance" (Religions Ancient and Modern) by J. Allanson Picton. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Historical
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Pantheism Its Story and Significance
James Allanson Picton was a British independent minister, author, philosopher and Liberal politician. Picton promoted a philosophy known as Christian pantheism. Picton was born at Liverpool, the eldest son of Sir James Allanson Picton and his wife Sarah Pooley. His father was an architect and supporter of the Liverpool Free Library. He was educated at the High School, and at the Mechanics' Institute and joined his father's architectural practice at the age of 16. Three years later he decided to study for the ministry and joined the Lancashire Independent College and Owens College, Manchester. He achieved a first in classics and in 1855 was awarded MA at the University of London. It has been ...
Pantheism Its Story and Significance
In this relatively short book, Picton discusses Pantheism; Pre-Christian, Post-Christian and Modern. With information on Pantheism in Buddhism, Hinduism, Greek and Egyptian religions, and the beliefs of Spinoza."It has been the customary and perhaps inevitable method of writers on Pantheism to trace its main idea back to the dreams of Vedic poets, the musings of Egyptian priests, and the speculations of the Greeks. But though it is undeniable that the divine unity of all Being was an almost necessary issue of earliest human thought upon the many and the one, yet the above method of treating Pantheism is to some extent misleading; and therefore caution is needed in using it. For the revival o...
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