emanationist
- adjective
- /ˌɛmənəˈneɪʃənɪst/
- Specialized
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emanacionista
- Many philosophers debated the merits of the emanationist perspective in understanding the universe.
Examples
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The emanationist view suggests that all beings come from a primary source of existence.
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Congar, Zizioulas, and Thompson rightly caution against an involuntary emanationist theology of creation and redemption, which Rahner surely did not intend.
Academic text (2002) -
This allows Augustine to overcome the emanationist and subordinationist tendencies in neo-Platonic metaphysics through an account of the mind, its self-presence, and activities.
Academic text (2003) -
(n32) Trinitarian theology, LaCugna maintained, must avoid both an emanationist theology of creation and redemption, and also a divorce of God's freedom from God's being.
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As J. E. McGuire has shown, Newton's proposal is not simply following the emanationist accounts of some of his contemporaries but expresses, more importantly, that "God's eternal existence is coeval with the existence of infinite space and time." n88
Academic text (2009) -
An emanationist philosophy typically describes a process where everything emerges from a single divine origin.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Emanationist comes from the Latin root emanare, which means 'to flow out', and from the noun emanation for something that flows from a source, like light from a lamp. So an emanationist idea describes beliefs that see everything as 'flowing out' from one primary source.
