Wendee Holtcamp wrote:
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> Does anyone know whether Albert Einstein was a Christian?
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> I have seen many quotes of his professing faith in God, but am not sure if he considered himself Christian and have been unable to find this info.
No, he was not. He was a Jew who respected the Jewish tradition & Jesus, but he
did not believe in a personal God. He was a pantheist who identified his beliefs in
many ways with Spinoza, who though that speaking of "God" was simply another way of
speaking of the totality of nature (_deus sive natura_). The place to look for more on
this would be Max Jammer's _Einstein and Religion_, published last year by Princeton
U.P. My review of this was published in the January-February 2000 _American Scientist_,
p.90.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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