Theirs is an empirical world of seemingly unlimited data to be combed through. (entrepreneur.com)
Just as the empirical world operated on such principles as cause and effect, so the spiritual world was supposed to be the effect of God, as First Cause. (religion-online.org)
Of course, Western theology has made its peace with the Enlightenment, the fundamental assumption of which is that there is a firm line between the empirical world and the transcendent world or spirit world. (religion-online.org)