Religious naturalism today : the rebirth of a forgotten alternative / Jerome A. Stone.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stone, Jerome Arthur, 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Natural theology.

Naturalism--Religious aspects.

Naturalism.

Philosophical theology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 p.)

Place of Publication:

Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Previously a forgotten option in religious thinking, religious naturalism is coming back. It seeks to explore and encourage religious ways of responding to the world on a completely naturalistic basis without a supreme being or ground of being. In this book, Jerome A. Stone traces its history and analyzes some of the issues dividing religious naturalists. He includes analysis of nearly fifty distinguished philosophers, theologians, scientists, and figures in art and literature, both living and dead. They range from Ursula Goodenough, Gordon Kaufman, William Dean, Thomas Berry, and Gary Snyder to Jan Christiaan Smuts, William Bernhardt, Gregory Bateson, and Sharon Welch.

Contents:

Part I: The birth of religious naturalism

Philosophical religious naturalism

Theological and humanist religious naturalists

Analyzing the issues

Religious naturalism in literature

Part II: The rebirth of religious naturalism

Sources of religious insight

Current issues in religious naturalism

Other current religious naturalists

Conclusion: Living religiously as a naturalist.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-248) and index.

ISBN:

9780791477915

0791477916

9781441621061

1441621067

OCLC:

436281667