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How To Use Immanence In A Sentence

  • Where, of course, Divine immanence is held to mean the "allness" -- which is the strict equivalent of the infinity -- of God, evil in every shape and form will either have to be ascribed to the direct will and agency of God Himself, or for apologetic purposes to be reduced to a mere semblance, or "not-being. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
  • The sense that romanticism prioritizes image over sound because sound cannot overcome its immanence is unsettled by the voice of Farinelli, which seems to vastly increase the power of sound, his voice having been described by English listeners precisely by drawing on the vocabulary of transcendence. Sounds Romantic: The Castrato and English Poetics Around 1800
  • Seidl's paintings, with their blunted contours, blending chroma and reticulate brushwork, are all about flux, immanence and the mutating visual field.
  • And when he is seen in his immanence and transcendence, then the ties that have bound the heart are unloosened, the doubts of the mind vanish, and the law of Karma works no more.
  • These extreme advocates of what they term the divine "immanence" go so far as to deny all second causes. Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
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  • The duodecad can be considered as two hexads, upper and lower; as three tetrads, working in dynamic cooperation; or as four triads in a synthesis of immanence and transcendence.
  • Immanence should not be equated with essence, if by essence we mean a substratum of materiality inherent in things; a quality or quiddity to which all things can be reduced.
  • A central idea of liberal theology is divine immanence.
  • Or, to quote the actual question of a believer in this kind of immanence, Why ask outside for a strength which we already possess? Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
  • It depends, we answer, what we mean by "this doctrine"; if we construe immanence to signify "allness," we may as well admit first as last that there is no way of escape from the difficulties which these queries suggest. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
  • But now, having achieved an awareness -- obscure and indescribable indeed, yet actual -- of the enfolding presence of Reality, under those two forms which the theologians call the "immanence" and the Practical Mysticism
  • On every hand we hear proclaimed a form of the doctrine of God's omnipresence (usually called the divine "immanence") which not only denies all distinction between the original Creation and the present perpetuation of the world, but a form which practically denies all second causes, and which cannot well be distinguished from pantheism, though it would be a spiritualistic or "idealistic" form of pantheism, or "monism," to use the favorite modern term. Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation
  • Such a factor, however, cannot be introduced, or re-introduced, into our theological thinking without necessitating a good deal of revision, nor without causing a certain measure of temporary confusion and dislocation; it will accordingly be the principal object of the following chapters to clear up misapprehensions which have arisen in connection with the idea of immanence, to assign to it its approximately proper place in Christian thought, and to safeguard an important truth against the injury done to it -- and {22} so to all truth -- by a zeal that is not according to knowledge. Problems of Immanence: studies critical and constructive
  • Or perhaps the hip-hop ‘nation’ has managed to de-essentialize and disembody blackness, while simultaneously solidifying its immanence.
  • The immanence of terror, regardless of its source, is evident not only in the protagonists' behavior, but also in their choice of methods, pathological copies of the enemy like those made by a retrovirus of the attacked cell.
  • The doctrine of God's "immanence" was almost a commonplace with Robert Browning
  • Spinozism, the immanence of Deity in creation, -- a principle as dear to the philosophic mind as that of the extramundane Divinity is to the theologian. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 08, June 1858
  • But now, having achieved an awareness -- obscure and indescribable indeed, yet actual -- of the enfolding presence of Reality, under those two forms which the theologians call the "immanence" and the "transcendence" of the Divine, a change is to take place in the relation between your finite human spirit and the Infinite Life in which at last it knows itself to dwell. Practical Mysticism A Little Book for Normal People
  • And this garb was a perfectly transparent sheath, through which he recognized the glory of the Divine Immanence.
  • The three mechanisms are adapted by officials for the immanence limitation of present system.
  • According to them we can only know something of God by means of the vital immanence, that is, under favourable circumstances the need of the Divine dormant in our subconsciousness becomes conscious and arouses that religious feeling or experience in which God reveals himself to us (see MODERNISM). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
  • However, through the introduction of the ‘Spirit,’ upon which Stoic philosophy has a great impact, this transcendence is counterbalanced by the immanence of Wisdom.
  • God becomes transcendent, the question of possible immanence becoming problematical.
  • When you go to church, it's a hollow, diluted dumbshow: when I go to church, every gesture aches with meaning and immanence.
  • One of his parishioners, a fisherman with three children and a pregnant wife, is in a state of depression, deepened by the immanence in the world of nuclear-bomb threats.
  • That explains why a regime of immanence has to be delivered with the forceps of a revolutionary fervour and needs to replace education, reflection, information and analysis with propaganda.
  • If we seek transcendence without honouring immanence, we naturally take flight from materiality except when matter conforms to some notion of aesthetic appropriateness, which is nothing other than prevailing social convention.
  • Taken verbally as well as ontologically, then, and directed back into romanticism, Agamben would thus help rethink Wordsworthian imminence as a kind of immanence in its own enunciative right. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
  • God is experienced as radical transcendence and radical immanence.

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