Argument
Omnipresence
Overview
Omnipresence or ubiquity is the attribute of being present anywhere and everywhere. The term omnipresence is most often used in a religious context as an attribute of a deity or supreme being, while the term ubiquity is generally used to describe something "existing or being everywhere at the same time, constantly encountered, widespread, common".
The omnipresence of a supreme being is conceived differently by different religious systems. In monotheistic religions like Islam, Christianity and Judaism, the divine and the universe are separate, but the divine is in attributes present everywhere. In pantheistic beliefs, the divine and the universe are identical. In panentheistic beliefs, the divine interpenetrates the universe, but extends beyond it in time and space.
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It remains therefore, that God is called omnipotent because He can do all things that are possible absolutely; which is the second way of saying a thing is possible. For a thing is said to be possible or impossible absolutely, according to the relation in which the very terms stand to one another, possible if the predicate is not incompatible with the subject, as that Socrates…
Aquinas Thomas, Summa Theologica, Part I
States what Omnipresence is.
But if those who cling to this crude “rationalism” were in earnest, e.g. with God’s omnipresence, so far as to realise their faith thereon in a definite mental idea, in what difficulties would they be involved by their belief in the true reality of the things of sense!
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Hegel's Philosophy of Mind
Names Omnipresence twice; opens on Omnipresence.
The higher life which belongs to this sphere, this supreme enjoyment of truth, which as feeling is called "blessedness," and as conscious thought "contemplation," we may describe generically as the life known to religion. For religion is just this universal domain[184], in virtue of which the _one_ concrete totality of the World comes to each man in union with himself, as his essential substance, while it remains no…
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Fine Art, volume 1
States what Omnipresence is.
Philosophers who discussed Omnipresence
Related ideas
- Ancient Egyptian religion
- Jesus
- Gospel of John
- Book of Genesis
- Hinduism
- Hasidic Judaism
- Judaism
- Saadia Gaon
- Ash'arism
- Maimonides
- Monotheism
- Historical Vedic religion
- Brahman
- Vedic period
- Religion in ancient Rome
- Omnipotence
- Omniscience
- Pantheism
- Panentheism
- Immanence
- Indigenous peoples of the Americas
- Religion
- Theology
- William Lane Craig
Place in the tradition
Part of Animism.