Inlibration

Quick meaning: Inlibration is a noun meaning (Islam) The fact of God's being invested in a book (the Qur'an), as opposed to in flesh as held by Christianity.

Meaning

(Islam) The fact of God's being invested in a book (the Qur'an), as opposed to in flesh as held by Christianity.

Example Sentences

Inlibration works in contrast—for Muslims the Qur'an is god, a fixed point as god's creation goes on around it.

The Prophet had to be a vessel unstained by external knowledge for the Word's inlibration, just as Mary had to be virgin in order to be a pure vessel for the Word's incarnation.

Consequently, […] the question arises in our mind whether […] there was not also in Islam a controversy over the inlibration, that is, the embookment, of the pre-existing Koran in the revealed Koran and also over the problem of whether the revealed Koran had two natures, a divine and a man-made, or only one nature, a man-made nature.

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