What do the terms transcendence and immanence mean as attributes of God?

What do the terms transcendence and immanence mean as attributes of God?

A transcendent is one who is beyond perception, independent of the universe, and wholly “other” when compared to us. There is no point of comparison, no points of commonality. In contrast, an immanent God is one which exists within — within us, within the universe, etc. — and, hence, very much a part of our existence.

What was Karl Barth’s theology?

As a theologian, Barth was concerned to establish the truth that God can be known only in accordance with his nature and to reject the 19th-century view that saw an identity between the Spirit of God and religious self-consciousness or between the laws of God and the natural structures of man’s life and history.

What is the relationship between the transcendence and immanence of God?

Immanence affirms, while transcendence denies that God is contained within the world, and thus within the limits of human reason, or within the norms and resources of human society and culture.

Was Karl Barth married?

Nelly Hoffmanm. 1913–1968
Karl Barth/Spouse

In 1913 he married Nelly Hoffmann, a talented violinist. They had a daughter and four sons, one of whom was the New Testament scholar Markus Barth (6 October 1915 – 1 July 1994).

What is the meaning of Barth?

Barthnoun. a place of shelter for cattle.

Can God create something greater than himself?

My answer was, yes God can do anything, He is all-powerful. But God is also all-wise, all-knowing, all-perfect etc and to create something/someone greater than Himself would be contrary to the rest of His nature. What would you say to this question?

Is it possible for all things to happen with God?

For all things are possible with God.” Because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Is anything too hard for the Lord?

Can God do or make anything?

The basic answer is: An all powerful God can do or make anything, but it’s meaningless to say that he can do or make a nothing. A logically contradictory state of affairs is not a thing at all, but NOTHING.

Does it feel like God is doing nothing?

The good news is that there are actually things that YOU can do…even when it feels like God is doing nothing. The Bible, at times, can take incredible liberty in its literary form. There are some sections of the Bible that read as objective history, others as first-person narrative.