The Pantheist Index

20th and 21st Centuries: Pantheists who live(d) in the 20th and 21st centuries.

Up to: Philosophers, Artists, Writers and Scientists

• Ackerman, Diane (1948 -) (3) Poet, essayist and Nature writer - including "A Natural History of the Senses" - whose work exhibits strong elements of Pantheism.

• Adams, Ansel (1902 - 1984) (4) American photographer and conservationist who professed "a vast impersonal Pantheism, transcending the confused myths and prescriptions that are presumed to clarify ethical and moral conduct". Win at free casino games at the best casino games

• Carson, Rachel (1907 - 1964) (2) Biologist, writer and ecologist who, although never identified as a Pantheist, expressed views that harmonise closely with the basic principles of Pantheism.

• Debussy, Claude (1862 - 1918) (2) French composer who once said, "I have made mysterious Nature my religion".

• Delius, Frederick (1862 - 1934) (6) English composer whose Pantheistic views were reflected in much of his work.

• Einstein, Albert (1879 - 1955) (5) Creator of the Theory of Relativity for whom science and religion informed one another, following Spinoza's view of the divine.

• Haeckel, Ernst (1834 - 1919) (5) Zoologist, animal-lover and aesthetic Pantheist, he also developed a monstrous social ethic based on misinterpreted Darwinism.

• Jeffers, Robinson (1887 - 1962) (3) American poet whose work is steeped in Nature - elemental, beautiful, and often brutal.

• Lawrence, D. H. (1885 - 1930) (1) Pantheist considered by many to be the greatest English novelist of the 20th century.

• Oliver, Mary (1935 -) (2) Pulitzer Prize winning poet who writes from her careful observation of the details of the natural world.

• Wright, Frank Lloyd (1867 - 1959) (2) Famous architect who built Falling Water and spelt God N-A-T-U-R-E.

• A Voice For Science and Religion Acceptance speech delivered on 6th December 1997, at the twentieth annual convention of the Freedom From Religion Foundation, by Ann Druyan, 1997 "Freethought Heroine".

• Bill Bruehl Pantheist playwright and retired English professor from SUNY Stony Brook, one of his plays recreates the last twelve hours in the life of Giordano Bruno.

• CarlSagan.com Official Carl Sagan Web site, featuring information on television programmes including the famous Cosmos series.

• Nature Is My God Interview with Mikhail Gorbachev from Resurgence Magazine in which he expresses Pantheist beliefs.

• PAN - Charles S. Milligan Biography of the minister, professor and Pantheist, with excerpts from his writings on Pantheism.

• PAN - Joseph Wood Krutch (1893-1970) Essay by Gary Suttle on the celebrated writer, naturalist and proponent of Pantheism.

• Pale Blue Dot Picture and excerpted text from "Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space" by Carl Sagan.

• Space Story Official Web site for NASA astronaut Story Musgrave who has an "extraordinary love of nature", as well as a fondness for Nature poetry and the philosophies of Emerson and Thoreau.

• The Real Star Trek Theology Discusses Gene Roddenberry's personal Pantheism and the Humanist messages that appear in Star Trek.

• Who are the Pantheists of Southern California? Photo-biographies for the organisers of the southern California local group of the World Pantheist Movement.