immanentize

English

Alternative forms

• immanentise

Etymology

From immanent +‎ -ize.

Verb

immanentize (third-person singular simple present immanentizes, present participle immanentizing, simple past and past participle immanentized)

1. To make immanent.
   • 1980, Thomas Steven Molnar, Theists and atheists: a typology of non-belief‎^[1], page 126:

     These revelations, however, soon distort God's revelation and immanentize it through a political choice.

   • 1984, Fred Lawrence, The Beginning and the beyond: papers from the Gadamer and Voegelin‎^[2], volume 4, page 82:

     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 […]

   • 1998, Edward Craig, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Genealogy to Iqbal‎^[3], page 212:

     The impact is to immanentize divine volition.

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