religious naturalism

religious naturalism (uncountable)

1. An approach to spirituality that is devoid of supernatural elements.

• 1846, The American Whig Review, page 282:

  there maybe an attempt to disguise the transition under a transcendental pantheism or what may be more appropriate be described as a seeming religious naturalism.

• 1940, Edgar S. Brightman, God as the Tendency of Nature to Support or Produce Values: Religious Naturalism, page 283:
• 1991, Jerome A. Stone, The Minimalist Vision of Transcendence, page 9:

  The purpose of this book is to explore the possibility of this alternative, to sketch a philosophy of religious naturalism.

• For more quotations using this term, see Citations:religious naturalism.

• religious naturalist

• pantheism
• neo-pantheism
• naturalism
• religion
• spiritual naturalism