emanationismn.
/ɛməˈneɪʃənɪz(ə)m/ = Emanatism n.
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1881 G. 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.
1951 N. 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.
1956 E. L. Mascall Christian Theol. & Nat. Sci. iii. 92 Emanationism, according to which the existence of the universe follows with physical necessity from the existence of God.
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