What does it mean when a person say that his her God is immanent? When people talk about God as immanent, it means something closer to"omnipresent," as opposed to transcendent for "unknowable." It's a formal word, popular with philosophers and religious people: "God is in all; He is ...
6.God is both transcendent over and immanent in his world. On the one hand he is distinct from the world, does not need it, and exceeds the grasp of any created intelligence that is found in it. Yet on the other hand he permeates the world in sustaining and creative power, shaping ...
According to Hindu belief, god is transcendent as well as immanent. The Hindu culture is more about what a person does rather than believes. It is based on a universal soul or god called Brahman. It takes on many forms that Hindus worship as gods or goddesses. The word, Namaste seems ...
But I must hasten to add that this does not mean that an agnostic must be a materialist. Many agnostics (including myself) are quite as doubtful of the body as they are of the soul, but this is a long story taking one into difficult metaphysics. Mind and matter alike, I should say...
AGERE SEQUITUR ESSE: WHAT DOES IT MEAN? A REPLY TO FATHER AUSTRIACO • David L. Schindler • "Austriaco defines being not by what it is, but by what is its first (ontological) effect." Father Nicanor Austriaco concludes his article, "Are Teratomas Embryos or Non-Embryos? A Criterion ...
If the gods disappeared in favor of a God, or the Buddhas, does this not imply the truth of the reductionistic perspective? Aren't all these beings now simply figments of the human imagination? Well, that depends on what is really there. If the reductionistic case is a naturalistic and ...
“If I do … then … happens”. In these cases, it can be assumed that an activity of the agent does not occur unintentionally or automatically (and is observed and reported like any arbitrary mental event or state) but arises as a direct consequence of a conscious intention or attempt (...
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Could you say each distinction is attended by two fallacies and two principles (itself, and its reverse)…does reversing the principle have a similar consequence like reversing the fallacy (below)…a way of regressing/returning back to the mean/dao/litmus (baseline is fubar if not the mean/...
What Does It Matter? Christopher K. Germer To live is so startling, it leaves but little room for other occupations. . . . —Emily Dickinson (1872) Psychotherapists are in the business of alleviating emotional suf fering. Suffering arrives in innumerable guises: as stress, anxiety, dep...