spiritual naturalism

spiritual naturalism
A worldview that reveres nature, without belief in the supernatural.

The book embraces a wide range of subjects, ontological, cosmical, theological, spiritual, and social, which are presented in the aspect of a unitary system, the pervading animus of which is a kind of attenuated and semi-spiritual naturalism, which ignores and repudiates any special divinity or sacredness attaching to the teachings of the Bible.

Syn: naturalistic spirituality

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