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Zygon, 2014 Religious naturalism is distinct from supernatural religion largely because of metaphysical minimalism. Certain varieties of religious naturalism are more minimalist than others, however, and some even eschew metaphysics altogether. But is anything lost
Stefani Ruper
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RE‐ENVISIONING HOPE: ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE, LEARNED IGNORANCE, AND RELIGIOUS NATURALISM
Zygon, 2018 In this essay, I introduce religious naturalism as one contemporary religious response to anthropogenic climate change; in so doing, I offer a concept of hope associated with the beauty of ignorance, of not knowing ourselves in the usual manner ...
Carol Wayne White
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Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 2003 Three questions are addressed. First, concerning the definition of naturalism, I accept the characterization by Rem Edwards (1972) but insist on a materialist or physicalist interpretation of these features. Second, the distinctive characteristic of my religious naturalism is an argument that although a theological position based on a physicalist ...
Charley D. Hardwick
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Religious naturalism: The current debate [PDF]
Philosophy Compass, 2018 Abstract This paper provides a survey of contemporary religious naturalism. It presents reductive and non‐reductive versions of religious naturalism, and some arguments in favour of this naturalistic perspective. Finally, it discusses three crucial demarcation issues that contemporary religious naturalism faces.
Mikael Leidenhag
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WHEN TO BE WHAT? WHY SCIENCE‐INSPIRED NATURALISM NEED NOT IMPLY RELIGIOUS NATURALISM [PDF]
Zygon, 2021 In The Aristos, John Fowles imagined the human situation as that of a diverse group of people on a raft, apparently between a wreck in the past and a shore where they will land. But there was no wreck, there is no shore.
Willem B. Drees
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What is Religious Naturalism? A Preliminary Report of an Ongoing Conversation
Zygon, 2000 Religious naturalism is an emerging construct that relies greatly on science and yet affirms attitudes and practices that are distinctly religious in nature. This article explores the meaning of the term as it is used by various proponents, contrasts it
Michael A. Cavanaugh
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Discerning the Limits of Religious Naturalism
Zygon, 2001 In response to my “How to Make Naturalism Safe for Supernaturalism: An Evaluation of Willem Drees's Supernaturalistic Naturalism” (Rottschaefer 2001), Willem Drees maintains that I have misunderstood his purpose and views and have failed to make the ...
William A. Rottschaefer
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Varieties of Religious Naturalism
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 2003 This article opens with two generic definitions of religious naturalism in general: one by Jerome Stone and one by Rem Edwards used by Charley Hardwick. Two boundary issues, humanism and process theology, are discussed. A brief sketch of my own “minimalist” and pluralist version of religious naturalism follows.
Jerome A. Stone
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Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 2007 In his book Religion Is Not About God, Loyal Rue presents an evolutionarily based explanation of religion as a means to further the personal and social fulfillment of human beings. Rue argues that religions in the form of myths, adaptive falsities, provide an account of the connection between what is (facts) and what matters (values).
William A. Rottschaefer
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Religious Naturalism and Naturalizing Morality [PDF]
Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, 2003 I first offer some reflections on the term religious naturalism. I then outline how moral thought might be configured in the context of religious naturalism. It is proposed that the goal of morality is to generate a flourishing community and that humans negotiate their social interactions using moral capacities that are cultivated in the context of ...
Ursula Goodenough
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