A spiritual belief that God (or Gods) exist outside of the physical world and that humans cannot have a direct interaction with the deity or deities. To communicate with a transcendent deity requires some sort of intermediary. The opposite belief is that of an immanent deity or deities. See: Immanent.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Alice Markham-Cantor, author of the new Once & Future Witch Hunt.
My 9x-great-grandmother, Martha Carrier, was hanged in the Salem witch trials. She wasn't a witch. She wasn't an herbalist or a...