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Noun
Transcendology
- A study of transcendentalism.
- The application of transcendentalism to spirituality.
- Asserts that truthfulness and rationality in religions are truths that can be substantiated by science or those that can not be proven to be incorrect.
- A doctrine and proclamation that spiritual transcendence and spiritual interaction, if one believes this to be an actuality, could only be possible between the spiritual existence and the spirit of man.
- A tenet proclamation that supernatural acts performed by physical or spiritual beings in the physical universe are not capable of existing or transpiring.
- The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
#A philosophy which holds that reasoning is key to understanding reality (associated with Kant); philosophy which stresses intuition and spirituality (associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson); transcendental character or quality.
#transcendologist; a movement of writers and philosophers in New England in the 19th Century who were loosely bound together by adherence to an idealistic system of thought based on a belief in the essential supremacy of insight over logic and experience for the revelation of the deepest truths.
Related terms
philosophy
religion
transcendental
transcendentalist
See also
Wikipedia: w:Transcendentalism|Transcendentalism
Wikibooks: wikibooks:Transcendentalist Theology|Transcendentalist Theology
Category:Religion
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