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. [from 20th c.]
    • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 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.