| Subject: | [socialcredit] immanence | | Date: | Thursday, September 1, 2005 17:02:58 (EDT) | | From: | Triumphofthepast <Triumphofthepast @...com>
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"An immanent God is a God that enters time." (Jim)
I don't think this is a correct use of the word "immanent." "Immanent" is the opposite of "transcendent." An immanent God is a God that "abides within" (from maneo, "remain"), just as immanent sovereignty is sovereignty is sovereignty that abides within. Douglas's rejection of "exteriorization of Divinity" is a rejection of the transcendent God.
Douglas frequently mentions the Incarnation, which seems to contradict the immanent God. However, he never employs this concept in its own right; rather, he employs it as a metaphor for an affirmation of life and this world as against abstraction and negation and death.
Michael
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