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Dagobert D. Runes Dagobert David Runes (January 6, 1902 – September 24, 1982) was a philosopher and author. Biography Born in Zastavna, Bukovina, Austro-Hungary (now in Ukraine), Runes emigrated to the United States in 1926. He had received a doctorat ...

, ''Dictionary of Philosophy'', 1942, theistic personalism is "the theory most generally held by Personalists that God is the ground of all being,

immanent The doctrine or theory of immanence holds that the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world. It is held by some philosophical and metaphysical theories of divine presence. Immanence is usually applied in monotheistic, pantheis ...

in and transcendent over the whole world of reality. It is pan-psychic but avoids

pantheism Pantheism is the belief that reality, the universe and the cosmos are identical with divinity and a supreme supernatural being or entity, pointing to the universe as being an immanent creator deity still expanding and creating, which has ex ...

by asserting the complementary nature of immanence and transcendence which come together in and are in some degree essential to all

personality Personality is the characteristic sets of behaviors, cognitions, and emotional patterns that are formed from biological and environmental factors, and which change over time. While there is no generally agreed-upon definition of personality, mos ...

. The term is used for the modern form of

theism Theism is broadly defined as the belief in the existence of a supreme being or deities. In common parlance, or when contrasted with ''deism'', the term often describes the classical conception of God that is found in monotheism (also referred to ...

. Immanence and transcendence are the contrapletes of personality."www.ditext.com
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