| 释义 |
emanationism|ɛməˈneɪʃənɪz(ə)m|
[f. emanation + -ism.]
= emanatism.
1881G. S. Hall Aspects German Culture 315 It [superstition] settled very thickly again in the first Christian centuries, as cabalism, emanationism, neo-platonism..with their hierarchies of spirit-hosts. 1951N. Annan Leslie Stephen v. 163 These two conceptions of God, though logically opposed, were united by Plato in the Timaeus by the device of emanationism: the Transcendental God, the goal of all desires, is perfect Good and therefore envious of nothing; hence He will wish everything to be as He, and He accordingly overflows into the imperfect and projects Himself into the universe. 1956E. L. Mascall Chr. Theol. & Nat. Sci. iii. 92 Emanationism, according to which the existence of the universe follows with physical necessity from the existence of God. |