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ubiquitism en · NOUN

Etymology

From Latin ubique (“everywhere”) + -ism.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The belief that the human nature of Christ is omnipresent.
    • This note is then immediately followed by a discussion about another process of 'usurpation' in connection with place: that of transubstantiation and the doctrine of ubiquitism. 1999, Jas Elsner, Jaś Elsner, John Elsner, Voyages and Visions: Towards a Cultural History of Travel, page 112:
    • She argues this in express critique of Luther's “ubiquitism” that supposedly stretches Jesus out everywhere. 2015, Paul R. Hinlicky, Beloved Community: Critical Dogmatics after Christendom, page 604:
    • The offers of several Lutheran divines—opponents of ubiquitism —to write a reply, were declined by the Bishops. 1885, Edmund De Schweinitz, The History of the Church Known as the Unitas Fratrum, page 417: