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Definition of Immanence
1. Noun. The state of being within or not going beyond a given domain.
Definition of Immanence
1. n. The condition or quality of being immanent; inherence; an indwelling.
Definition of Immanence
1. Noun. The state of being immanent; inherency. ¹
2. Noun. The state of dwelling within and not extending beyond a given domain. ¹
3. Noun. (philosophy metaphysics theology) The concept of the presence of deity in and throughout the real world; the idea that God is everywhere and in everything. ''Contrast'' (term transcendence). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Immanence
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Immanence
Literary usage of Immanence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The principle of absolute immanence becomes a dogma which they seek to impose
... The notion of immanence is at the present day one of the centres around ..."
2. Theology as an Empirical Science by Douglas Clyde Macintosh (1919)
"But even granting the reality of this wider immanence, the point of importance
just here is that, according to experimental religion at its best, ..."
3. Lux Mundi: A Series of Studies in the Religion of the Incarnation by Charles Gore (1890)
"This doctrine of the omnipresence of God, as conceived by religion, had however
yet to be fused with the philosophical doctrine of immanence. ..."
4. The Idea of God: Historical, Critical, Constructive by Clarence Augustine Beckwith (1922)
"... XL TRANSCENDENCE AND immanence THE doctrines of the divine transcendence and
the divine immanence have had a long and checkered history. ..."
5. The Idea of God: Historical, Critical, Constructive by Clarence Augustine Beckwith (1922)
"TRANSCENDENCE AND immanence THE doctrines of the divine transcendence and the
divine immanence have had a long and checkered history. ..."
6. The Incarnation and Modern Thought by Carl Delos Case (1908)
"The reasonable basis of science is the doctrine of the immanence of God.
The doctrine of the divine immanence of God as opposed to a one-sided emphasis of ..."
7. A Dictionary of Christ and the Gospels by John Chisholm Lambert (1906)
"But immanence and transcendence are not exclusive of each other. A correct theistic
philosophy ... The history of the principle of immanence is interesting. ..."
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