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Christianity and Religious Naturalism

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology
This article provides an overview of contemporary religious naturalism, with a specific focus on Christian articulations of this emerging worldview and movement.
Mikael Leidenhag
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Religious Spirituality and the Meaning of Life: the Problem of Absurdity [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022
Religious spirituality faces various challenges in the new world. One of these challenges is the question of meaningfulness or emptiness of life. While in the traditional world, few thinkers see life as empty and absurd, today there are many such views ...
Vahid Sohrabifar, Abolghasem Fanaei
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A Critical Review of Theological Arguments in Defence of Methodological Naturalism [PDF]

حکمت و فلسفه, 2018
Inconsistency of methodological naturalism and religious beliefs has been the most important reason for theists to oppose methodological naturalism. But some philosophers defend methodological naturalism based on their theological dispositions.
Zahra Zargar, Ebrahim Azadegan, Lotfollah Nabavi   +2 more
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Cultural Relativism in Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Cultural and Religious Rituals [PDF]

پژوهشنامه فلسفه دین, 2022
According to the current interpretation, Wittgenstein in "Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough" takes an expressive approach to religious rituals and cultural practices. Relying on this approach, he criticizes Frazer's view.
Hossein Shaqaqi
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Rescuing religious non-realism from Cupitt [PDF]

, 2006
Don Cupitt's version of religious non-realism based as it is on linguistic constructivism, radical relativism and the view that culture forms human nature has been attacked with devastating effect by realists in the last few years.
Walker, Ruth
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'A habitual disposition to the good': on reason, virtue and realism [PDF]

, 2015
Amidst the crisis of instrumental reason, a number of contemporary political philosophers including Jürgen Habermas have sought to rescue the project of a reasonable humanism from the twin threats of religious fundamentalism and secular naturalism.
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NATURALISM AND RELIGION: HUNTING TWO SNARKS?

Zygon, 2021
Lewis Carroll's poem The Hunting of the Snark has as its subtitle An Agony in Eight Fits. Agony: struggle, violent and painful contest, the pangs of death.
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Between Naturalism and Theism: Johnston and Putnam on the Reality of God [PDF]

, 2014
The essay compares mark Johnston’s and Hilary Putnam’s approaches to the philosophy of religion in the framework of Charles Taylor’s claim that in modernity ”intermediate positions’ between theism and naturalism become increasingly attractive for a ...
Schlette, Magnus
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The Explanation and Its Models in Religious Study [PDF]

Comparative Theology, 2020
The ultimate goal of science is to predict the future and predicting is impossible without explanation. The scientific explanation is the expression of causes of a phenomenon in the light of a scientific law. Explanation in the humanities is a widespread
Ahmad Ebadi, Elham Sadat Karimi Dooraki
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Theology and Naturalism

St Andrews Encyclopaedia of Theology, 2023
Historically and today, the movement of naturalism affirms the reality of the natural world, rejecting religious views of God, the soul, and values when these are understood to be supernatural or transcending the natural world.
Charles Taliaferro
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