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The Aristotelian and Neoplatonic principle that God does not know individuals was a source of trouble in Islam and something that could only rather arbitrarily excised, with other embarrassments, in Christian (mainly Thomist) theology. Correcting the original error, however, requires a recognition ...
Soul is everywhere or can be everywhere, spread throughout the world and ‘in’ the world, rather than a priori disconnected from it. This view seems to commend forms of immanent spirituality rather than transcendent spirituality.Footnote 9 Moreover, such spirituality also implies that we must ...
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 ...