pandeism

/pænˈdiːɪz(ə)m/

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from German Pandeismus, from pan- (from Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, prefix meaning ‘all’)) + Deismus (“deism”) (from Latin deus (“deity, god”) + German -ismus (“-ism”)). (Similar words appear earlier in various languages, but apparently not in the same sense.) The word can be analysed as pan- + deism or as a blend of pantheism + deism.

Why this word is great

PANDEISM — [Noun] A belief in a god who designed the universe and then became it, ceasing to exist separately or act consciously. From pan- (Ancient Greek πᾶν, 'all') + deism (Latin deus, 'god'), or a blend of pantheism + deism. Unlike "pantheism" (which equates god with the universe but lacks a creation event) or "deism" (which posits a distant, uninvolved creator), pandeism is a god who dissolves into their own handiwork. It is the watchmaker who melts down his tools to become the gears, the painter who steps into the canvas until only the landscape remains, or the dreamer who wakes to find they are the dream—a theology of sublime self-annihilation, where the act of creation is also the act of vanishing. The universe, then, is both monument and grave: a god’s final silence.

noun

A belief in a god who is both pantheistic and deistic, in particular a god who designed the universe and then became it and ceased to exist separately and act consciously with respect to it.“Just as [absolute perfection in some respects, relative perfection in all others] is the whole positive content of perfection, so CW, or the conception of the Creator-and-the-Whole-of-what-he-has-created as constituting one life, the super-whole which in its everlasting essence is uncreated (and does not necessitate just the parts which the whole has) but in its de facto concreteness is created – ”
Worship which admits or tolerates favourable aspects of all religions; omnitheism.“We hear men prophesy that this war means the death of Christianity and an era of Pandeism or perhaps even the destruction of all which we call modern civilization and culture. We hear men predict that the ultimate result of the war will be a blessing to humanity.”