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Immanence
ImmanenceIn theological discourse, immanence refers to the presence of God in the world. Conventionally, immanence contrasts with the term transcendence, which emphasizes God's separateness and superiority to the world. The two terms, however, are not exclusive opposites, and many theologians balance doctrines of God's transcendence with God's immanence. Historically, theologians have tended to emphasize God's transcendence over God's immanence. In the past two centuries, however, this emphasis has shifted, and many theologians now give more weight to God's immanence. Advocates of panentheism such as Arthur Peacocke (1924–) argue that a theology emphasizing God's immanence is most compatible with modern science. See also God; Panentheism; Transcendence Bibliographypeacocke, arthur. theology for a scientific age: being and becoming—natural, divine, and human, enlarged edition. minneapolis, minn.: fortress press, 1993. gregory r. peterson |
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PETERSON, GREGORY R.. "Immanence." Encyclopedia of Science and Religion. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. PETERSON, GREGORY R.. "Immanence." Encyclopedia of Science and Religion. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3404200273.html PETERSON, GREGORY R.. "Immanence." Encyclopedia of Science and Religion. 2003. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3404200273.html |
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immanence
immanence [Lat.,=dwelling in], in metaphysics, the presence within the natural world of a spiritual or cosmic principle, especially of the Deity. It is contrasted with transcendence. The immanence of God in the world is the basic feature of pantheism . Among the most important philosophies using the concept of immanence are Stoicism and the systems of Giordano Bruno and Spinoza . In general, the great monotheistic religions have held that God is both immanent and transcendent, although individual thinkers have tended to emphasize one or the other aspect. |
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"immanence." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "immanence." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-immanenc.html "immanence." The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed.. 2008. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-immanenc.html |
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im·ma·nent / ˈimənənt/ • adj. existing or operating within; inherent: the protection of liberties is immanent in constitutional arrangements. ∎ (of God) permanently pervading and sustaining the universe. Often contrasted with transcendent. DERIVATIVES: im·ma·nence n. im·ma·nen·cy n. im·ma·nent·ism / -ˌtizəm/ n. im·ma·nent·ist / -tist/ n. |
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"immanent." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "immanent." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-immanent.html "immanent." The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English. 2009. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O999-immanent.html |
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Immanence
Immanence (Lat., immanere, ‘to inhabit’). The presence of actions, or of God, in the world, usually in such a way that the source of the action or presence remains distinct. At an extreme, the created order is understood to be the mode of God's self-manifestation, and thus to be the body of God. See also PANTHEISM; PROCESS THEOLOGY.
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JOHN BOWKER. "Immanence." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN BOWKER. "Immanence." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Immanence.html JOHN BOWKER. "Immanence." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions. 1997. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O101-Immanence.html |
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T. F. HOAD. "immanent." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "immanent." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-immanent.html T. F. HOAD. "immanent." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-immanent.html |
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immanence
immanence See TRANSCENDENTALISM.
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GORDON MARSHALL. "immanence." A Dictionary of Sociology. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. GORDON MARSHALL. "immanence." A Dictionary of Sociology. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O88-immanence.html GORDON MARSHALL. "immanence." A Dictionary of Sociology. 1998. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O88-immanence.html |
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immanence •abeyance, conveyance, purveyance
•creance • ambience
•irradiance, radiance
•expedience, obedience
•audience
•dalliance, mésalliance
•salience
•consilience, resilience
•emollience • ebullience
•convenience, lenience, provenience
•impercipience, incipience, percipience
•variance • experience
•luxuriance, prurience
•nescience • omniscience
•insouciance • deviance
•subservience • transience
•alliance, appliance, compliance, defiance, misalliance, neuroscience, reliance, science
•allowance
•annoyance, clairvoyance, flamboyance
•fluence, pursuance
•perpetuance • affluence • effluence
•mellifluence • confluence
•congruence • issuance • continuance
•disturbance
•attendance, dependence, interdependence, resplendence, superintendence, tendance, transcendence
•cadence
•antecedence, credence, impedance
•riddance • diffidence • confidence
•accidence • precedence • dissidence
•coincidence, incidence
•evidence
•improvidence, providence
•residence
•abidance, guidance, misguidance, subsidence
•correspondence, despondence
•accordance, concordance, discordance
•avoidance, voidance
•imprudence, jurisprudence, prudence
•impudence • abundance • elegance
•arrogance • extravagance
•allegiance • indigence
•counter-intelligence, intelligence
•negligence • diligence • intransigence
•exigence
•divulgence, effulgence, indulgence, refulgence
•convergence, divergence, emergence, insurgence, resurgence, submergence
•significance
•balance, counterbalance, imbalance, outbalance, valance
•parlance • repellence • semblance
•bivalence, covalence, surveillance, valence
•sibilance • jubilance • vigilance
•pestilence • silence • condolence
•virulence • ambulance • crapulence
•flatulence • feculence • petulance
•opulence • fraudulence • corpulence
•succulence, truculence
•turbulence • violence • redolence
•indolence • somnolence • excellence
•insolence • nonchalance
•benevolence, malevolence
•ambivalence, equivalence
•Clemence • vehemence
•conformance, outperformance, performance
•adamance • penance • ordinance
•eminence • imminence
•dominance, prominence
•abstinence • maintenance
•continence • countenance
•sustenance
•appurtenance, impertinence, pertinence
•provenance • ordnance • repugnance
•ordonnance • immanence
•impermanence, permanence
•assonance • dissonance • consonance
•governance • resonance • threepence
•halfpence • sixpence
•comeuppance, tuppence, twopence
•clarence, transparence
•aberrance, deterrence, inherence, Terence
•remembrance • entrance
•Behrens, forbearance
•fragrance • hindrance • recalcitrance
•abhorrence, Florence, Lawrence, Lorentz
•monstrance
•concurrence, co-occurrence, occurrence, recurrence
•encumbrance
•adherence, appearance, clearance, coherence, interference, perseverance
•assurance, durance, endurance, insurance
•exuberance, protuberance
•preponderance • transference
•deference, preference, reference
•difference • inference • conference
•sufferance • circumference
•belligerence • tolerance • ignorance
•temperance • utterance • furtherance
•irreverence, reverence, severance
•deliverance • renascence • absence
•acquiescence, adolescence, arborescence, coalescence, convalescence, deliquescence, effervescence, essence, evanescence, excrescence, florescence, fluorescence, incandescence, iridescence, juvenescence, luminescence, obsolescence, opalescence, phosphorescence, pubescence, putrescence, quiescence, quintessence, tumescence
•obeisance, Renaissance
•puissance
•impuissance, reminiscence
•beneficence, maleficence
•magnificence, munificence
•reconnaissance • concupiscence
•reticence
•licence, license
•nonsense
•nuisance, translucence
•innocence • conversance • sentience
•impatience, patience
•conscience
•repentance, sentence
•acceptance • acquaintance
•acquittance, admittance, intermittence, pittance, quittance, remittance
•assistance, coexistence, consistence, distance, existence, insistence, outdistance, persistence, resistance, subsistence
•instance • exorbitance
•concomitance
•impenitence, penitence
•appetence
•competence, omnicompetence
•inheritance • capacitance • hesitance
•Constance • importance • potence
•conductance, inductance, reluctance
•substance • circumstance
•omnipotence • impotence
•inadvertence • grievance
•irrelevance, relevance
•connivance, contrivance
•observance • sequence • consequence
•subsequence • eloquence
•grandiloquence, magniloquence
•brilliance • poignance
•omnipresence, pleasance, presence
•complaisance • malfeasance
•incognizance, recognizance
•usance • recusance
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"immanence." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "immanence." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-immanence.html "immanence." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-immanence.html |
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immanent
immanent •abeyant, mayn't
•ambient, circumambient
•gradient, irradiant, radiant
•expedient, ingredient, mediant, obedient
•valiant • salient • resilient • emollient
•defoliant • ebullient • suppliant
•convenient, intervenient, lenient, prevenient
•sapient
•impercipient, incipient, percipient, recipient
•recreant • variant • miscreant
•Orient • nutrient
•esurient, luxuriant, parturient, prurient
•nescient, prescient
•omniscient • insouciant • renunciant
•officiant • negotiant • deviant
•subservient • transient
•affiant, Bryant, client, compliant, defiant, giant, pliant, reliant
•buoyant, clairvoyant, flamboyant
•fluent, pursuant, truant
•affluent • effluent • mellifluent
•confluent • circumfluent • congruent
•issuant • continuant • constituent
•lambent • absorbent
•incumbent, recumbent
•couchant • merchant • hadn't
•ardent, guardant, regardant
•pedant
•appendant, ascendant, attendant, codependent, defendant, descendant, descendent, intendant, interdependent, pendant, pendent, splendent, superintendent, transcendent
•antecedent, decedent, needn't, precedent
•didn't • diffident • confident
•accident • dissident
•coincident, incident
•oxidant • evident
•improvident, provident
•president, resident
•strident, trident
•co-respondent, correspondent, despondent, fondant, respondent
•accordant, concordant, discordant, mordant, mordent
•rodent
•imprudent, jurisprudent, prudent, student
•couldn't, shouldn't, wouldn't
•impudent
•abundant, redundant
•decadent • verdant • infant • elephant
•triumphant • sycophant • elegant
•fumigant • congregant • litigant
•termagant • arrogant • extravagant
•pageant
•cotangent, plangent, tangent
•argent, Sargent, sergeant
•agent • newsagent • regent
•astringent, contingent, stringent
•indigent • intelligent • negligent
•diligent • intransigent • exigent
•cogent
•effulgent, fulgent, indulgent
•pungent
•convergent, detergent, divergent, emergent, insurgent, resurgent, urgent
•bacchant • peccant • vacant • piquant
•predicant • mendicant • significant
•applicant • supplicant • communicant
•lubricant • desiccant • intoxicant
•gallant, talent
•appellant, propellant, propellent, repellent, water-repellent
•resemblant
•assailant, inhalant
•sealant • sibilant • jubilant
•flagellant • vigilant • pestilent
•silent
•Solent, volant
•coolant • virulent • purulent
•ambulant, somnambulant
•coagulant • crapulent • flatulent
•feculent • esculent • petulant
•stimulant • flocculent • opulent
•postulant • fraudulent • corpulent
•undulant
•succulent, truculent
•turbulent • violent • redolent
•indolent • somnolent • excellent
•insolent • nonchalant
•benevolent, malevolent, prevalent
•ambivalent, equivalent
•garment • clement • segment
•claimant, clamant, payment, raiment
•ailment
•figment, pigment
•fitment • aliment • element
•oddment
•dormant, informant
•moment • adamant • stagnant
•lieutenant, pennant, subtenant, tenant
•pregnant, regnant
•remnant • complainant
•benignant, indignant, malignant
•recombinant • contaminant
•eminent
•discriminant, imminent
•dominant, prominent
•illuminant, ruminant
•determinant • abstinent
•continent, subcontinent
•appurtenant, impertinent, pertinent
•revenant
•component, deponent, exponent, opponent, proponent
•oppugnant, repugnant
•immanent
•impermanent, permanent
•dissonant • consonant • alternant
•covenant • resonant • rampant
•discrepant • flippant • participant
•occupant • serpent
•apparent, arrant, transparent
•Arendt
•aberrant, deterrent, errant, inherent, knight-errant
•entrant
•declarant, parent
•grandparent • step-parent
•godparent
•flagrant, fragrant, vagrant
•registrant • celebrant • emigrant
•immigrant • ministrant • aspirant
•antiperspirant • recalcitrant
•integrant • tyrant • vibrant • hydrant
•migrant, transmigrant
•abhorrent, torrent, warrant
•quadrant • figurant • obscurant
•blackcurrant, concurrent, currant, current, occurrent, redcurrant
•white currant • cross-current
•undercurrent
•adherent, coherent, sederunt
•exuberant, protuberant
•reverberant • denaturant
•preponderant • deodorant
•different, vociferant
•belligerent, refrigerant
•accelerant • tolerant • cormorant
•itinerant • ignorant • cooperant
•expectorant • adulterant
•irreverent, reverent
•nascent, passant
•absent
•accent, relaxant
•acquiescent, adolescent, albescent, Besant, coalescent, confessant, convalescent, crescent, depressant, effervescent, erubescent, evanescent, excrescent, flavescent, fluorescent, immunosuppressant, incandescent, incessant, iridescent, juvenescent, lactescent, liquescent, luminescent, nigrescent, obsolescent, opalescent, pearlescent, phosphorescent, pubescent, putrescent, quiescent, suppressant, tumescent, turgescent, virescent, viridescent
•adjacent, complacent, obeisant
•decent, recent
•impuissant, reminiscent
•Vincent • puissant
•beneficent, maleficent
•magnificent, munificent
•Millicent • concupiscent • reticent
•docent
•lucent, translucent
•discussant, mustn't
•innocent
•conversant, versant
•consentient, sentient, trenchant
•impatient, patient
•ancient • outpatient
•coefficient, deficient, efficient, proficient, sufficient
•quotient • patent
•interactant, reactant
•disinfectant, expectant, protectant
•repentant • acceptant
•contestant, decongestant
•sextant
•blatant, latent
•intermittent
•assistant, coexistent, consistent, distant, equidistant, existent, insistent, persistent, resistant, subsistent, water-resistant
•instant
•cohabitant, habitant
•exorbitant • militant • concomitant
•impenitent, penitent
•palpitant • crepitant • precipitant
•competent, omnicompetent
•irritant • incapacitant • Protestant
•hesitant • visitant • mightn't • octant
•remontant • constant
•important, oughtn't
•accountant • potent
•mutant, pollutant
•adjutant • executant • disputant
•reluctant
•consultant, exultant, resultant
•combatant • omnipotent • impotent
•inadvertent
•Havant, haven't, savant, savante
•advent
•irrelevant, relevant
•pursuivant • solvent • convent
•adjuvant
•fervent, observant, servant
•manservant • maidservant
•frequent, sequent
•delinquent • consequent
•subsequent • unguent • eloquent
•grandiloquent, magniloquent
•brilliant • poignant • hasn't
•bezant, omnipresent, peasant, pheasant, pleasant, present
•complaisant • malfeasant • isn't
•cognizant • wasn't • recusant
•doesn't
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"immanent." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 11 Feb. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "immanent." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (February 11, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-immanent.html "immanent." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved February 11, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-immanent.html |
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