Sentences with phrase «of supernaturalism»

However, we must remind ourselves of a vital historical fact, which is that many of these forms of supernaturalism were attacked, and at least partially overthrown, by biblical religion long before the advent of modern science.

We begin with the issue of supernaturalism in religion and its supposedly superstitious character.

«52 The way Bultmann has employed the distinction between an «ontological» and an «antic» possibility does suggest a type of supernaturalism which Ogden justifiably wishes to avoid.53 However, a misuse of a distinction does not necessarily invalidate it.

Thus Kaplan rejects the historicity of the miracles described in the Bible and the logic of supernaturalism inherent in the Jewish tradition.

Since the breakdown of supernaturalism, the claims of Christianity to uniqueness and to finality have continued, but they have required justification.

The purpose of this theory is to develop a philosophical theology that avoids what Kaplan considers to be the pitfalls of both supernaturalism and reductive naturalism.

The use of supernaturalism to manipulate and control people is the world's oldest confidence scheme, it relies on the ritual abuse of children at their most impressionable stage by adults who have themselves been made childish for life by artifacts of the primitive mind.

On the other hand, many pages are spent divesting the biblical picture of the Second Coming of any taint of supernaturalism.

One climactic event in the story of supernaturalism's collapse was associated with Halley's Comet.

In your recent letter you say that one of your professors has been attacking the idea of supernaturalism.

While it may be, then, that a high degree of supernaturalism remains in American religion as a formal tenet, the operational relevance of the supernatural may have largely collapsed into the interior concerns of the self.

This entails the removal of supernaturalism from Christian teaching.

Wieman shared with the earlier representatives of the Chicago school their complete rejection of all forms of supernaturalism and any bondage to past authority.

And with no imagery available, other than that of supernaturalism, to suggest such nuances or sensitive ground for pointing toward dimensions of grace or spirit, Christian faith could mean for the modern consciousness only confidence in the resources of man's moral idealism.

The Temple rejects all forms of supernaturalism and is committed to the view that scientific rationality provides the best measure of reality.