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Title: Pantheism: A Non-Theistic Concept of Deity by Michael P. Levine ISBN: 0-415-07064-3 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: 01 August, 1994 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $80.00

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Summary: An excellent pantheology, but...
Comment: Pantheism is hardly a new phenomenon, counting among its official and unofficial exponents many renowned philosophers, poets, and artists. It is also an ingredient, often an undigestible one, in most of the world's religions. In recent years the rather diffuse pantheistic currents have gathered together in a number of formal and informal associations -- one, the World Pantheist Movement, is well organized and growing and represents a particular form known first as Scientific and now Naturalistic Pantheism. An excellent introduction to Naturalistic Pantheism as a religious movement can be found in Paul Harrison's ELEMENTS OF PANTHEISM.

Unlike Harrison's short and eminently readable book, Michael P. Levine's PANTHEISM is formal, philosophical, slower going, and more opinionated. He insists, for example, that pantheism is not atheism -- a point I agree with while acknowledging that many pantheists would not insist on that being true. Levine also states upfront that he himself is not a pantheist. I find it a fascinating conundrum that a "non-believer" would take such a hard line on what constitutes the conviction he himself doesn't hold.

Nevertheless, I really enjoyed this book and value it enormously. It is a philosophical and pantheological tour de force, and whether or not one agrees with its conclusions it is to date the best textbook on the subject in existence.