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 NERFINISHED
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 NERFINISHED
Christian theology
Enlightenment rationalism
language German
mainRegion German-speaking Europe NERFINISHED
mainTopic Enlightenment theology NERFINISHED
Spinozism NERFINISHED
atheism
nature of God
pantheism
relationship between reason and faith
movement German Enlightenment NERFINISHED
German Idealism (prehistory) NERFINISHED
notableFigure Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi NERFINISHED
Friedrich Schleiermacher NERFINISHED
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing NERFINISHED
Immanuel Kant NERFINISHED
Johann Georg Hamann NERFINISHED
Johann Gottfried Herder NERFINISHED
Johann Gottlieb Fichte NERFINISHED
Karl Leonhard Reinhold NERFINISHED
Moses Mendelssohn NERFINISHED
notableWork Jerusalem, or On Religious Power and Judaism NERFINISHED
Letters on the Doctrine of Spinoza NERFINISHED
Morning Hours NERFINISHED
On Religion: Speeches to Its Cultured Despisers NERFINISHED
On the Doctrine of Spinoza in Letters to Mr. Moses Mendelssohn NERFINISHED
relatedTo German Idealism NERFINISHED
Spinozism NERFINISHED
atheism
deism
history of theology
pantheism
startTime 1783
temporalLocation 18th century

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Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi participantIn Pantheism controversy