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{{Short description|Belief that the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world}} {{Distinguish|Imminence (disambiguation){{!}}imminence|Eminence (disambiguation){{!}}eminence}} {{Redirect-distinguish|Immanent|immanant}} {{More citations needed|date=August 2014}} The doctrine or theory of '''immanence''' holds that the [[divinity|divine]] encompasses or is manifested in the material world. It is held by some [[philosophical]] and [[metaphysical]] theories of [[divine presence]]. Immanence is usually applied in [[monotheism|monotheistic]], [[Pantheism|pantheistic]], [[Pandeism|pandeistic]], or [[Panentheism|panentheistic]] faiths to suggest that the [[spirituality|spiritual]] world permeates the [[Wikt:mundane|mundane]]. It is often contrasted with theories of [[transcendence (religion)|transcendence]], in which the divine is seen to be outside the [[physical world|material world]]. Major faiths commonly devote significant philosophical efforts to explaining the relationship between immanence and transcendence but do so in different ways, such as: * casting immanence as a characteristic of a transcendent God (common in [[Abrahamic religion]]s), * subsuming immanent [[personal god]]s in a greater transcendent being (such as with [[Brahman]] in [[Hinduism]]), or * approaching the question of transcendence as something which can only be answered through an appraisal of immanence.
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