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In religion, transcendence is the aspect of existence that is completely independent of the material universe, beyond all known physical laws. This is related to the nature and power of deities as well as other spiritual or supernatural beings and forces.
According to Wayne Grudem, "the God of the Bible is no abstract deity removed from, and uninterested in his creation". [16] Grudem goes on to say that the whole Bible "is the story of God's involvement with his creation", but highlights verses such as Acts 17:28, "in him we live and move and have our being". [16]
[52] [53] The Bible usually uses the name of God in the singular (e.g., Exodus 20:7 [54] or Psalms 8:1), [55] generally using the terms in a very general sense rather than referring to any special designation of God. [56] However, general references to the name of God may branch to other special forms which express his multifaceted attributes. [56]
Divine simplicity is the hallmark of God's transcendence of all else, ensuring that the divine nature is beyond the reach of ordinary categories and distinctions (or, at least, their ordinary application). "Simplicity in this way confers a unique ontological status that many philosophers find highly peculiar."
There are many versions of the transcendental argument for the existence of God (both progressive and regressive), but they generally proceed as follows: [5] If there is a transcendental unity of apperception, God exists.
Transcendence—That God exists beyond the natural realm of physical laws ... One view expressed in the Bible is that on the day Christ returns the righteous dead are ...
Christian mysticism is the tradition of mystical practices and mystical theology within Christianity which "concerns the preparation [of the person] for, the consciousness of, and the effect of [...] a direct and transformative presence of God" [1] or divine love. [2]
The apophatic or negative way stresses God's absolute transcendence and unknowability in such a way that we cannot say anything about the divine essence because God is so totally beyond being. The dual concept of the immanence and transcendence of God can help us to understand the simultaneous truth of both "ways" to God: at the same time as ...