immanentize

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verb

To make immanent.

“immanentize the eschaton”

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Meanings

verbimmanentize (third-person singular simple present immanentizes, present participle immanentizing, simple past and past participle immanentized)

present singular third person immanentizes · participle present immanentizing · participle past immanentized · past immanentized · alternative immanentise

  1. To make immanent.

    immanentize the eschaton

    3 more examples

    These revelations, however, soon distort God's revelation and immanentize it through a political choice.

    1980, Thomas Steven Molnar, Theists and atheists: a typology of non-belief, page 126

    As we will see in more detail in the next section, our anticipation of a world-cultural network of communities not only does not immanentize Christian eschatology, but takes its stand on the world-transcendent objective of Christian […]

    1984, Fred Lawrence, The Beginning and the beyond: papers from the Gadamer and Voegelin, volume 4, page 82

    The impact is to immanentize divine volition.

    1998, Edward Craig, Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Genealogy to Iqbal, page 212

Origin

From immanent + -ize.

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