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immanentism

immanentism

1 9.9
Belief that the divine is present in the natural world
  • noun
  • /ˈɪmənəntɪzəm/
  • Formal
: inmanentismo
  • The belief in immanentism suggests that everything, including the divine, exists within the natural world.

Examples

  • It is difficult to imagine a more forceful and systematic rejection of the immanentism with its assumption of self-containment or self-sufficiency that underlies the libertarian view.

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  • Our choice of political economy is clear: one rooted either in secular immanentism or traditional transcendence.

    Blog text (9)
  • This is the error of liberal immanentism.

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  • For all their talk of freedom and human dignity, which advocates of the former proclaim, the ultimate effect of immanentism, as shown above, is quite inhumane.

    Blog text (9)
  • Similarly, in Quadragesimo Anno, the battle against immanentism is strongly indicated when Pius XI states:

    Blog text (9)
  • And finally, in Centesimus Annus, we find three strong statements rejecting the immanentism of market idolatry:

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  • Rooted in a radical immanentism, which is itself grounded in the central doctrine of the Incarnation, it is a position that has no need to talk of transcendence, divine revelation, and mystery.

    Academic text (1991)
  • It is an ecclesiology rooted in incarnational and sacramental concepts, one which holds together the human and divine without falling into thoroughgoing immanentism.

    Academic text (1991)
  • In my home of origins and in my adoptive home now, I see, very disheartened, the same deep motivation, which is the transformation of the world of everyday life into a manifestation of purely postmodern immanentism.

    Blog text (31)
  • What Bonaventure feared, modern philosophy succumbed to, as the pursuit of rationalism and freedom led to the collapse of God and the worldly immanentism of modernity.

    Academic text (2007)

Antonyms

transcendentalism
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A belief that inner feelings and spiritual experience matter more than facts

Surface Forms

immanentism singular
immanentisms plural

Morphology

immanentism = immanent (transparent) = immanent + ism

Derived straightforwardly from the adjective 'immanent' with the noun-forming suffix '-ism' meaning a doctrine or belief.

Etymology

Immanentism begins with in- meaning 'in' and the second part comes from Latin manēre meaning 'to stay' or 'remain', just like the English word remain. So, immanentism is the belief that the divine or ultimate reality 'stays within' the world instead of being outside it.