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  • Given its immanentist character and insistence on separating religion from dogma and theology, it is close to the view of religion that one finds in recent work by R.B. B.aithwaite,

    My Recycled Soul 2009

  • That immanentist reduction that has its roots in Rationalism, Naturalism, and Liberalism, finding its final form in Marxist Materialism.

    Liberalism: Sin, Iniquity, Abomination de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • That immanentist reduction that has its roots in Rationalism, Naturalism, and Liberalism, finding its final form in Marxist Materialism.

    Archive 2008-11-23 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • As the immanentist understanding of intentionality was eventually abandoned by Brentano and other students of his, Marty is no exception in this regard.

    Anton Marty Rollinger, Robin 2008

  • In his earlier work he followed Brentano in adopting an immanentist version of this notion.

    Anton Marty Rollinger, Robin 2008

  • James Aho, whose _Religious Mythology and the Art of War_ is the classic exposition of this opposition, describes one set of warrior ideologies as "immanentist-cosmological" and gives their characteristic attitude as one in which "warfare is play … it is an end in itself."

    "What is missing is the chaos of battle" 2007

  • Ficino's thought is significant because from them the impulse toward a reconciliation of the transcendental and immanentist elements in the theme of the dignity of man could be found, especially in Augustine and the humanists.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas CHARLES TRINKAUS 1968

  • Islamism, despite its opportunistic appeals to religion, fits into this model of a secularizing modernity because it has little to do with transcendence-consider its distance from Sufism-and everything to do with an immanentist "paradise on earth" - as lugubrious as that so-called paradise turns out to be.

    TELOSscope: The Telos Press blog Russell Berman <telosscope@telospress.com> 2009

  • In the name of a "new" Church, a "post-conciliar" Church, some people are attempting to found another Church than that of Jesus Christ; an anthropocentric society, which is threatened by an 'immanentist apostasy,' and which can be drawn into a movement of general surrender under the cloak of rejuvenation, ecumenism, or adaptation. "—

    Bizarre 2009

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