Pantheism controversy

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The Pantheism controversy was an 18th-century German philosophical dispute centered on accusations of Spinozism and atheism that sparked widespread debate about reason, faith, and the nature of God.

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instanceOf historical event
intellectual debate
philosophical controversy
country Germany
hasAspect debate over limits of human reason
debate over personal vs. impersonal conceptions of God
debate over rationalism vs. fideism
debate over revelation and natural religion
hasCause accusations of Spinozism
accusations of atheism
influenced concept of faith in post-Kantian philosophy
debates on atheism in modern philosophy
development of German Idealism
modern theology of religion
influencedBy Baruch Spinoza
Christian theology
Enlightenment rationalism
language German
mainRegion German-speaking Europe
mainTopic Enlightenment theology
Spinozism
atheism
nature of God
pantheism
relationship between reason and faith
movement German Enlightenment
German Idealism (prehistory)
linked to: German idealism
notableFigure Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
Friedrich Schleiermacher
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Immanuel Kant
Johann Georg Hamann
Johann Gottfried Herder
Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Karl Leonhard Reinhold
Moses Mendelssohn
notableWork Jerusalem, or On Religious Power and Judaism
Letters on the Doctrine of Spinoza
Morning Hours
On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers
On the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn
relatedTo German Idealism
linked to: German idealism

Spinozism
atheism
deism
history of theology
pantheism
startTime 1783
temporalLocation 18th century

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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi participantIn Pantheism controversy
The Living Temple associatedWithEvent Kellogg pantheism crisis
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Über die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn influenced Pantheism Controversy
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Über die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn triggered Pantheism Controversy
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Über die Lehre des Spinoza in Briefen an den Herrn Moses Mendelssohn historicalContext Pantheism Controversy of the 1780s
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