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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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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
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Religious Naturalism and Naturalizing Morality
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 ...
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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 ...
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Thick Naturalism: Comments on Zygon 2000
Zygon, 2000 The term naturalism arouses strong emotions; religious naturalism even more. In this essay, naturalism is explored in a variety of contexts, in contrast to supernaturalism (in metaphysics), normativism (in ethics and epistemology), and rationalism (in ...
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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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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.
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A FRAMEWORK OF SPIRITUALITY FOR THE FUTURE OF NATURALISM
Zygon, 2021 William James wrote that the life of religion “consists of the belief that there is an unseen order, and that our supreme good lies in harmoniously adjusting ourselves thereto.” Naturalism organizes our experiences of the universe within a science ...
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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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The Real Conflict Between Science and Religion: Alvin Plantinga’s Ignoratio Elenchi [PDF]
, 2013 By focussing on the logical relations between scientific theories and religious beliefs in his book Where the Conflict Really Lies, Alvin Plantinga overlooks the real conflict between science and religion.
Philipse, Herman
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