immanencen.
/ˈɪmənəns/, U.S. /ˈɪmənəns/ Philosophy and Theology.
Esp. of God: the fact, condition, or quality of being immanent; presence or dwelling in or within a person or thing. Cf. indwelling n.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun]
inherence1577
subsistence1593
inherency1601
inbeing1617
immanency1619
inhesiona1631
inexistence1635
inexistency1674
intrinsicalness1676
immanence1687
intrinsicality1852
the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > nature or attributes of God > [noun] > continuous presence of
immanency1619
immanence1687
1687 tr. Moral Ess. Soul Man ii. xvi. 256 Every thing which is in the Soul..every Modification of the Soul, and every Vital Act, being by reason of the Immanence [Fr. l'immanence] Essentially Spiritual.
1692 S. Nye Trinitarian Scheme Relig. 5/2 Not only the Father is God, and the Son is God, and the Holy Spirit is God; but whatsoever else is in God by way of Immanence, that also is God.
1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. App. p. ix In its state of immanence or indwelling in reason and religion, the will appears indifferently as wisdom or as love.
1867 G. H. Lewes Hist. Philos. (ed. 3) II. 106 Bruno anticipated Spinoza in his conception of the immanence of the Deity.
1883 A. Edersheim Life Jesus (ed. 6) II. 521 Conscious immanence in Him [sc. Christ], and of His Word in us are the indispensable conditions of our privileges.
1931 W. R. B. Gibson tr. E. Husserl Ideas ii. ii. 133 Apart from perception, we find a variety of intentional experiences which essentially exclude the real immanence of their intentional objects.
1971 J. Gardner Grendel v. 68 Importance is derived from the immanence of infinitude in the finite.
2005 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 38 198 The faithful could seek consolation in neo-Lamarckism, vitalism or other progressionistic doctrines that implied God's immanence within Nature.
Compounds
immanence philosophy n. a theory, originating in Germany at the end of the 19th cent., that reality exists only through being immanent in conscious minds. [After German Immanenzphilosophie (1897 or earlier in this sense; 1869 or earlier in uncertain sense in a theological context). Compare die immanente Philosophie (1897 as the title of a work by the German philosopher W. Schuppe).]
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the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > subjectivism > [noun] > immanence theory
immanence philosophy1901
1901 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. I. 520/2 The immanence-philosophy (philosophy of the immediately given or science of pure experience) is the doctrine of a group of recent German thinkers.
1953 D. H. Freeman tr. H. Dooyeweerd New Crit. Theoret. Thought I. i. i. 112 It appears, that..modern phenomenology and Humanistic existentialism move in the paths of immanence-philosophy.
2004 R. Feist in W. Sweet Approaches to Metaphysics iii. 76 Immanence philosophy maintains that the real is limited to that which is given; but it entails that there are no environmental constituents shared by different subjects.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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