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Published on: 2011-11-01
Released on: 2011-11-01
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Claims that the natural world, as opposed to a supernatural realm, can inspire a religious sensibility and a conviction that life is meaningful.Nature is enough: enough to allow us to find meaning in life and to answer our religious sensibilities. This is the position of religious naturalists, who deny the existence of a deity and a supernatural realm. In this book, Loyal Rue answers critics by describing how religious naturalism can provide a satisfying vision of the meaning of human existence.The work begins with a discussion of how to evaluate the meaning of life itself, referencing a range of thought from ancient Greek philosophy to the Abrahamic traditions to the Enlightenment to contemporary process and postmodern philosophies. Ultimately proposing meaning as an emergent property of living organisms, Rue writes that a meaningful life comes through happiness and virtue. Spiritual qualities that combine evolutionary cosmology and biocentric morality are described: reverence, gratitude, awe, humility, relatedness, compassion, and hope. Rue looks at why religious naturalism is not currently more of a movement, but nevertheless predicts that it will become the prevailing religious sensibility.“…one can find insightful discussions of, among other things, faith, hope, and love in a godless universe and how one should face death and suffering if one rejects the reality of both God and an afterlife.” — Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences“Loyal Rue manages the difficult task of being both profound and accessible, and I am grateful. Now when people ask me their most difficult questions concerning the meaning of life I can point them in the direction of this wonderful book.” — Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction“Religious naturalism is an approach to experiencing and appreciating nature with the awe, reverence, and respect that are usually associated with religion, but without the metaphysical paraphernalia of the latter. In this book, Loyal Rue insightfully sees the meaning in reality, examines the emergence of meaning, and incorporates the dimension of meaning into naturalized religion. He concludes the book with thoughtful personal responses to topics that provoke us all: God, creation, sin, grace, faith, and such, and the meaning of life itself. This is a persuasive and powerful call to religious naturalism, and will become one of the classics in the literature on the subject.” — Varadaraja V. Raman, author of Truth and Tension in Science and ReligionLoyal Rue is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Luther College. He is the author of Everybody’s Story: Wising Up to the Epic of Evolution, also published by SUNY Press, and Religion Is Not about God: How Spiritual Traditions Nurture Our Biological Nature and What to Expect When They Fail. Meaning of life - Wikipedia Why are we here? What are we here for? What is the origin of life? What is the nature of life? What is the nature of reality? What is the purpose of life? North American Indians: the spirituality of nature North American Indians attitudes a religious beliefs about nature with selected texts. How God Gives Life Meaning Value and Purpose Suppose there is a God and suppose that God gives meaning to life. But what is that meaning? Craig skates around that issue but never tells us what that meaning is. Naturalism Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy Naturalism. Naturalism is an approach to philosophical problems that interprets them as tractable through the methods of the empirical sciences or at least without a ... Literary Terms and Definitions P - Carson-Newman College This list is meant to assist not intimidate. Use it as a touchstone for important concepts and vocabulary that we will cover ... Meaning of Life: The Analytic Perspective Internet ... Meaning of Life: Contemporary Analytic Perspectives. Depending upon whom one asks the question What is the meaning of life? may be one of the most profound ... Nature - Wikipedia Nature in the broadest sense is the natural physical or material world or universe. "Nature" can refer to the phenomena of the physical world and also to life in ... Naturalism Theism and the Origin of Life return to religion-online. Naturalism Theism and the Origin of Life. by Joseph E. Earley. Joseph E. Earley is Professor of Chemistry at Georgetown University ... religious nature of evolution - creation.com T.H. Huxley Darwins bulldog through whom the concept of evolution was proliferated said in 1863 the longer I live and the more I learn the more ... Existentialism - Philosophy - AllAboutPhilosophy.org Existentialism. Existentialism A Definition Existentialism in the broader sense is a 20th century philosophy that is centered upon the analysis of existence and ...
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