What is "pandeism"

Pandeism may refer to:

• Pandeism, a religious construct incorporating elements of pantheism and deism
• Pandeism (Godfrey Higgins), a secret cult hypothosized by several eighteenth century religionists
• Pandeism has occasionally been used as a synonym for Omnism, a philosophy which deems all religions to be equal paths to the truth
• Pandeism, social/political support of the Pande or Pandey peoples

Pandeism (or pan-deism) is a theological doctrine which combines aspects of pantheism into deism. It holds that the creator deity became the universe and ceased to exist as a separate and conscious entity. Pandeism is proposed to explain, as it relates to deism, why God would create a universe and then abandon it, and as to pantheism, the origin and purpose of the universe.

The word pandeism is a hybrid blend of the root words pantheism and deism, combining with which means " god". It was perhaps first coined in the present meaning in 1859 by Moritz Lazarus and Heymann Steinthal.