The words 'material', 'transcend', and 'divine' make sense when conceiving of a world with a creator god and his created reality. To transcend is to transcend the creation of the creator god to be united with him in some fashion. Materialism's dispute with creationism (in the broadest sense of the term) could be described as a difference regarding the hardness of reality:
Creationism: Material reality is real but it's not real real. In other words, it's real, but it's not the most fundamental level of reality, which is god.
Materialism: Material reality is real real. Material reality is the most fundamental level of reality, not god. Or, it emerges from a somethingness which is the most fundamental level of reality.
However, in my 'relativity of realness' way of thinking, the terms 'material', 'transcend', and 'divine' start to lose coherence.
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