immanentize

verb

immanentize

verb

Etymology From immanent + -ize.

1

To make immanent.

  • immanentize the eschaton
  • These revelations, however, soon distort God's revelation and immanentize it through a political choice.1980, Thomas Steven Molnar, Theists and atheists: a typology of non-belief, page 126:
2 more examples
  • As we will see in more detail in the next section, our anticipation of a world-cultural network of communities not only does not immanentize Christian eschatology, but takes its stand on the world-transcendent objective of Christian […]1984, Fred Lawrence, The Beginning and the beyond: papers from the Gadamer and Voegelin, volume 4, page 82:
  • The impact is to immanentize divine volition.1998, Edward Craig, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Genealogy to Iqbal, page 212:
Related terms
immanentization, eschaton

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