different between transtheism vs transcendentalism

English

Etymology

Back-formation from transtheistic, a term coined by Heinrich Zimmer for the theological system in Jainism.

Noun

transtheism (uncountable)

1. Beyond theism or atheism, belief in one or more deities which transcend the universe and yet are also immanent; belief in a panentheistic God.

Translations

See also

• pandeism
• panendeism
• panentheism
• pantheism
• theopanism

English

Etymology

transcendental +? -ism

Noun

transcendentalism (countable and uncountable, plural transcendentalisms)

1. The transcending, or going beyond, empiricism, and ascertaining a priori the fundamental principles of human knowledge.
2. Ambitious and imaginative vagueness in thought, imagery, or diction.
3. 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.
4. 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

Translations

See also

• transcendentalism on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Wikibooks: Transcendentalist Theology

Romanian

Etymology

From French transcendantalisme

Noun

transcendentalism n (uncountable)

1. transcendentalism

Declension