Thesis
The idea of a transcendent God
- Abstract:
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'Transcend' comes from the Latin 'tran(s)cendere': 'to climb over or beyond, surmount.' Obsolete uses of 'transcend' reflect this origin, having to do with the surmounting of some obstacle. 'A transcends B' has also been used to imply the relative superiority of A to B. 'Transcendent' has had a technical use in philosophy, where it tends to represent that which falls outside the bounds of some standard classification.
Running through the various senses of 'transcendent' is the idea ...
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- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Type of award:
- DPhil
- Level of award:
- Doctoral
- Awarding institution:
- University of Oxford
- Source identifiers:
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Item Description
- UUID:
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- Local pid:
- polonsky:5:19
- Deposit date:
- 2017-10-05
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- Copyright holder:
- McLean, M; McLean, Murdith
- Copyright date:
- 1972
- Notes:
- This thesis was digitised thanks to the generosity of Dr Leonard Polonsky
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