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emanation

emanation

1 9.9
How the Holy Spirit is believed to come from the Father and the Son
  • noun
  • /ˌɛm.əˈneɪ.ʃən/
  • Specialized
translation icon : emanación
  • In Christian theology, the Holy Spirit is understood as an emanation from the Father and the Son, especially during Pentecost.

Waking up to the fact that you are a divine emanation of the sacred one that breathed you into life.

Examples

  • Finally, Hear O Israel and the silent Amidah take us into atzilut ("emanation"), the highest and most abstract of the four worlds.

    Blog text (19)
  • It's one of the emanations of an infinite God.

    Fiction book (2001)
  • Either way, the final conclusion is the same: music is an activity under the final superintendence of the Spirit, an emanation from it.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • Thus God's own self-determination is an essential emanation of his goodness.

    Academic text (1990)
  • Waking up to the fact that you are a divine emanation of the sacred one that breathed you into life.

  • "'T is a kind of emanation of God's beauty," Edwards had written of the inward light, "and is related to God as the light is to the sun."

    Academic text (2010)
  • Wollstonecraft also maintained that reason was an "emanation of divinity," and therefore the nature of reason must be the same for both sexes.

    Academic text (1992)
  • The idea that a beloved woman can be the manifestation of divinity or the emanation of God was acceptable among the Arabs much earlier than the thirteenth century.

    Academic text (2018)
  • The belief that the Holy Spirit is an emanation of divine origin helps explain the concept of inspiration in prophecy.

  • Many theologians describe the relationship between the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit as an emanation of love and unity.

Synonyms

procession
vsemanation
  • Specialized
2 9.9

A Christian belief that the Holy Spirit comes from the Father or from both Father and Son

is used especially to describe the Spirit's flowing at Pentecost
spiration
vsemanation
  • Formal
9.9

A Christian belief that the Holy Spirit comes from the Father or from the Father and the Son

is used especially to describe the Spirit's flowing at Pentecost

Surface Forms

emanation singular
emanations plural

Morphology

emanation = emanate (transparent) = emanate + ion

Theological usage is formed the same way (deverbal noun from 'emanate'), so the formation is morphologically regular even if the sense is specialized.

Etymology

The word emanation comes from the Latin parts e- 'out' and manare 'to flow', giving the image of something 'flowing out' from a source. That's why theologians use emanation for the Holy Spirit, because it describes the Spirit 'flowing out' from the Father and the Son at Pentecost.