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Naturalizing God? : a critical evaluation of religious naturalism / Mikael Leidenhag.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leidenhag, Mikael, 1986- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Naturalism--Religious aspects.
- Naturalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Religious Naturalists to Be Discussed
- Current Research on Religious Naturalism
- Metaphysical Grounding Problems
- Chapter Overview
- 1 Explicating Religious Naturalism
- Introducing Religious Naturalism
- Historical Predecessors
- Demarcating Religious Naturalism from Related Approaches
- The Nature of Naturalism
- The Epistemological Authority of Science
- Religious Aspects of Reality
- Religious Naturalism and Traditional Religion
- Scientific Objections to Traditional Religion
- Pragmatic Objections to Traditional Religion
- Global Religious Naturalism?
- Naturalistically Informed Religion
- Religiously Informed Naturalism
- Global Religious Naturalism
- The Function of Religious Language
- Scientific Reasons for a New View of Religious Language
- Ecological Reasons for a New View of Religious Language
- Ecological Mindfulness and Religious Language
- Scientific Realism in Religious Naturalism
- Realism, Antirealism, and Pragmatic Realism
- Conclusions
- 2 What is Naturalistic about Religious Naturalism?
- The Central Pillars of Naturalism
- Why Should One Be a Naturalist?
- Naturalism as an Economical Explanation
- Naturalism as Implied by Science
- Pragmatic Benefits of Naturalism
- Monistic Naturalism
- Pluralistic Naturalism
- Summary of Monistic Naturalism and Pluralistic Naturalism
- 3 The Metaphysical Grounding Problems of Monism and Pluralism
- Monistic Naturalism and the Issue of Antireductionism
- Monistic Naturalism and Semantic Pluralism
- Pluralistic Naturalism and Emergence Theory
- Emergent Phenomena as Unpredictable and Unexplainable
- Emergent Novelty
- Downward Causation
- Some Grounding Problems for Pluralistic Naturalism
- Downward Causation and Monism: A Good Match?
- Problems with Mystery Emergence
- Is There a Necessary Connection between Emergent Properties, Values, and a Religious Reality?
- 4 The Religious Dimension of Religious Naturalism
- Religious Realism in Rue and Crosby
- Religious Antirealism in Hardwick and Drees
- Understanding Pragmatic Religious Realism
- Pragmatic Realism Applied to Religious Naturalism
- Pragmatic Dimension of Gordon Kaufman's Proposal
- Pragmatic Thinking in the Theology of Karl Peters
- Stuart Kauffman's Reinvention of the Sacred
- Ursula Goodenough's Modest Pragmatism
- 5 The Problem of Religious Discourse in Religious Naturalism
- The Tension between Physicalism and Christian Faith
- Limit-Questions and the Status of Naturalism
- Pragmatic Realism
- Functional Religion and Theological Realism
- Objectivist Religion and the Problem of Evil
- Necessary Ambiguity and Perspectival Evil
- Moral Goodness and Religious Rightness
- Coping with and Mitigating Evil: Assurance and Demand
- The Many Religious Objects of Religion of Nature
- Conclusions
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 12, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Leidenhag, Mikael, 1986- Naturalizing God?
- ISBN:
- 9781438484426
- 1438484429
- Publisher Number:
- 40030669317
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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