immanentism

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English

Etymology

From immanent +‎ -ism.

Noun

immanentism (usually uncountable, plural immanentisms)

  1. (philosophy, theology) A doctrine based on immanence, especially the immanence of God.
    • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 126:
      While some, like the early Church Fathers, still viewed it as the prison of the spirit, new emphasis came to be placed on the soul's incarceration in the flesh, the doctrine of immanentism.