Sentences with word «supernaturalism»

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

There is a potential instability in natural supernaturalism.

For one thing, the collapse of the old supernaturalism certainly need not mean the loss of God.

It's easy to like True Blood, because Ball's episodic smarts are primal, not at a remove, and he approaches supernaturalism by emphasizing the natural over the super.

Assuming you answer would be «yes» for 1 and 2, what is your answer for: «3) Does Supernaturalism currently have «reasonably certain» explanation for the beginning MET?

«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.

On the other hand, underlying Kaplan's entire philosophical theology is a polemic against supernaturalism, according to which God is not subject to any empirical law of nature and can therefore suspend the natural order at any point in time.

I will celebrate when humanity rises up to throw off the oppressive weight of religious beliefs, replacing blind belief and supernaturalism with reason, fact, and a real pursuit of truth.

To argue for supernaturalism as an alternative to critical history would be to reopen a Pandora's box.

Such extremes, however, more aptly characterize the crass supernaturalism of the religious right then mainstream Christianity.

Before you say something is out of this world, first make sure that it is not in this world, for science is grounded in naturalism, not supernaturalism, paranormalism or any other unnecessarily complicated explanations.

The resurgence of religious orthodoxy and the revival of traditional religious supernaturalism and institutionalism are further evidences of the struggle for reassurance in an age of disintegrated values.

In this aim, Kaplan's philosophical theology is similar to that of Alfred North Whitehead's — namely, to steer a middle course between unreflective supernaturalism and reductive naturalism.

Kaplan maintains that the Jewish religion can and should be divorced from supernaturalism and come to be associated with the natural processes of body and mind.

Under the old supernaturalism religion was regarded as a way of getting special favors from on high.

The logical positivists with their demand for verification addressed themselves mostly to traditional supernaturalism.

Thus Martin concludes, for example, that N. T. Wright's approach to Jesus, which mixes supernaturalism and ordinary biography, is just as historically valid as Sanders's method, which does not deal with miracles or the resurrection — although, paradoxically Martin finds Wright's arguments about the resurrection very unconvincing.

Finally, unanswered prayer made him question supernaturalism.

Partly this was simply the growing incredibility of the implicit supernaturalism and fideism of neo-orthodoxy.

Basically, a version of free will that practically requires God or some other supernaturalism does not make a good argument for the existence of such God.

The Fundamentalists in the 1950's: Evangelicalism splits off over insularity and harshness and embraces pop culture; charasmatic movement desperately trying to recover supernaturalism

Whereas some Catholic historians have extravagantly begun to claim that the Protestant Reformation was an attempt to Christianize semi-pagan Europe, Butler sees Protestantism as itself being «semi -» reformed, still influenced by the non-Christian supernaturalisms of the times.

Both their adherents and the majority who ignored or disdained their appeals kept their attachments to occultism and to other hardly licit supernaturalisms.

Jenkins observes that local beliefs about visions, prophecy and healing have also contributed to Southern Christianity's distinctive supernaturalism.

Literalism and supernaturalism alienate both groups, because, to use Roof's words, it does not locate meaning in the unfolding of one's own life.

By clearing faith of its archaic supernaturalism, Bultmann argued in Jesus Christ and Mythology, «demythologization will eliminate a false stumbling block and bring into sharp focus the real stumbling block, the word of the cross.»

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

In the foregoing passage, Kaplan negates supernaturalism, the view that God is an identifiable being who stands outside the universe.

Theistic supernaturalism, says Tillich, pictures God as a being, separate from all other beings.

(1949), Judaism Without Supernaturalism (1958).

Its explanation of the Fall expresses a more rabid supernaturalism than biblical literalists would recognize, locating Eve's sin in her sexual intercourse with an archangel.

Of course, this robust supernaturalism is in some tension with the naturalist assumptions that dominate the public discourse in a modern society.

This is so whether the system be naive supernaturalism or that of Hegel or Whitehead or Hartshorne or Paul Weiss or Paul Tillich or any other.

The idea that God's power is manifest essentially in the suspension or abrogation of natural law makes supernaturalism untenable.

The God who appears in this judgment of the world is neither the amiable parent of the soft faith we recently avowed nor the miracle worker of a superstitious supernaturalism; he is rather the eternal God, Creator, Judge, and Redeemer, whom prophets and apostles heard, and saw at work, casting down and raising up.

After that the old style supernaturalism was in trouble.

That is genuine supernaturalism.

That way of conceiving God saved my faith, after supernaturalism had well nigh ruined it.

All too commonly today supernaturalism means splitting the universe in two — on one side nature, run by natural laws, on the other side the supernatural that ever and again breaks into the natural, disturbs its regular procedures, and suspends its laws.

If, whenever personal will steps in to do something that nature by itself would not do, we call that supernatural, we obviously can not get supernaturalism out of religion, because we can not get it out of life.

That was honest - to - goodness 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.