emanationism
Definitions
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- noun A religious concept that everything is derived from emanations from a god
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This may take the form of emanationism, in which the universe is to the Absolute what rings of light are to a flame, or an interpretation of the divine as the sole substance of which all existing things are a mode.
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He says, "emanationism does not necessarily lead to pantheism, but it does imply that in some sense God is in the world and the world is in God."
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In this essay Tanabe sharply criticizes Nishida's middle-period philosophy of the “place of Absolute Nothingness,” claiming that it falls into kind of Plotinian “emanationism” that ultimately rests on a religious or mystical intuition.
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In the doctrine of complete emanationism, all things, from the highest spiritual substances to the lowest forms of matter, come from God as their first origin, matter being the last and therefore most imperfect emanation.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
Note
The word 'emanationism' comes from ultimately from a Latin word meaning 'to flow out'.
