My mind recently tossed up the phrase “immanentize the eschaton” and I thought I’d see if the OED had it; it does indeed, and the whole entry (first published 2014) is quite interesting:
Originally Philosophy.
transitive. To make (something which is transcendent) immanent; to render (something abstract) real, actual, or capable of being experienced. Cf. immanent adj. 3.
1926 Gentile has merely immanentised the old transcendent Absolute by identifying it with each moment and act and, at the same time, with the whole process of experience, and has merely transferred to experience the mystery of the origin.
A. Crespi, Contemporary Thought of Italy iv. 1851952 The problem of an eidos in history, hence, arises only when a Christian transcendental fulfillment becomes immanentized.
E. Voegelin, New Sci. of Politics iv. 1201992 There we shared an experience the intensity of which immanentizes a certain quality of life aboard the vessel.
W. F. Buckley, WindFall v. 742005 The ideal of moral perfection, which in Christianity was rooted in the transcendent, was immanentized due to the parameters established by modern epistemology.
Journal Relig. Ethics vol. 33 71
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