He calls his way immanentism, and concentrates on the lived human experience, as it happens in specific places and times.

The major modern thinkers are disciples of Spinoza insofar as they advocate some form of "secular salvation," or "immanentism."

The difficulties in traditional philosophical and theological dualism led Spinoza to reject this approach and to develop the alternative philosophy of monism, or immanentism.

Nouvelle Théologie scholars expressed Catholic dogma with concepts of modern philosophy, immanentism or idealism or existentialism or any other system.

His scholarly concerns included the relationship of Christianity to history, ecumenism, mysticism, the philosophy of religion, and the rejection of much of the immanentism in nineteenth-century theology.

The second example of it can be found in the question of pantheism--or rather of a certain modern attitude which is often called immanentism, and which often is Buddhism.

Therefore Gentile proposed a form of what he called 'absolute Immanentism' in which the divine was the present conception of reality in the totality of one's individual thinking as an evolving, growing and dynamic process.

This view, mixed in with philosophical currents such as vitalism, immanentism and historicism, was at the heart of the modernist controversy during the papacy of Pius X, and was condemned in the encyclical Pascendi.

It is affirmed in the concept of the divine in the major religious traditions, and contrasts with the notion of God, or the Absolute, existing exclusively in the physical order (immanentism), or indistinguishable from it (pantheism).

Did beads of sweat break out on their foreheads as they read the page on which the Pope explains how Descartes "inaugurated the great anthropocentric shift in philosophy" and brought the world to "the threshold of modern immanentism and subjectivism"?

Against the prevailing Marxist and neo-positivist opinions of his contemporaries, he always maintained that philosophical ideas influence the course of human history, and that modern history in particular can only be understood as the unfolding of certain philosophical options (rationalism, immanentism, scientism).

Spinoza's immanentism is better understood as the logical outcome of his own philosophical critique of the medieval Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides and Spinoza's contemporary, the French Christian philosopher Rene Descartes, the two men with whose doctrines he was most familiar.

In his book The Problem of Atheism he argued that, precisely in order to place atheism in the history of philosophy, it is necessary to call into question and to abandon the view that the process of the history of thought is a unitary process towards immanentism.