Christianity and Religious Naturalism

Christianity and Religious Naturalism

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This article provides an overview of contemporary religious naturalism, with a specific focus on Christian articulations of this emerging worldview and movement.Section 1 outlines the contours of religious naturalism, some commonly proposed reasons in favour of it, major historical predecessors, as well Hat as neighbouring perspectives.Section 2 moves the focus to Christian naturalism, and how this perspective understands the nature of God, soteriology, and Christology from the vantage points of both reductive and non-reductive forms of naturalism.It Plein air - Homme - Chaussures - Bottes also briefly explores the ways in which distinctive communities have emerged that advocate for religious naturalism, and some possible practices that seem congruent with the principles of this worldview.Section 3 unpacks several challenges facing a religiously naturalistic outlook, focusing on its religious relevance, issues of demarcation, the problem of evil, and the philosophical plausibility of a naturalistic ontology itself.