Religious Naturalism Today : The Rebirth of a Forgotten Alternative

Stone, Jerome A.

ISBN 10: 0791475387 / ISBN 13: 9780791475386

Published by State University of New York Press, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Religious Naturalism Today : The Rebirth of a Forgotten Alternative
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791475387
• ISBN 13: 9780791475386
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: As New

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Synopsis

Looks at the history and revival of religious naturalism, a spiritual path without a supreme being.

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.

About the Author

Jerome A. Stone is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at William Rainey Harper College. He is the coeditor (with Creighton Peden) of both volumes of The Chicago School of Theology: Pioneers in Religious Inquiry, and the author of The Minimalist Vision of Transcendence: A Naturalist Philosophy of Religion, also published by SUNY Press.