transcendence

What it means

1. countableThe act of surpassing usual limits.
2. uncountableThe state of being beyond the range of normal perception.
3. uncountableThe state of being free from the constraints of the material world, as in the case of a deity.

In a sentence

The Augustinian theology rests upon the transcendence of Deity as its controlling principle

1884, Alexander Viets Griswold Allen, The Continuity of Christian Thought

Where it comes from

From transcend + -ence.