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Natural Supernaturalism was important for me to read, because Abrams shows the many ways in which the Romantic movement was at odds with orthodox Christianity.

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.

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

To affirm, for example, that the essential elements of Christianity in the first century were only those items which believers of that day have in common with the «liberal» theologian of the twentieth century, is to eliminate as unessential to first - century believers their realistic eschatology, their belief in demons and angels, their vivid supernaturalism, their sacramentalism, their notion of the miraculous content of religious experience, and various other features of similar importance.

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.

Tillich presents us with a God that tries to go beyond naturalism and supernaturalism by showing God as «self - transcendent» and as the ground of being of whatever exists.3 But Tillich is still very much bound by the categories of classical metaphysics, especially that of «being.»

In our generation there is danger and hope — danger that these noncognitive accouterments will lose their aesthetic harmony and hypnotic power when integrated with the basic prehensions of science, and be reverted into impotent and empty symbols, jarring, ugly, and without force in final satisfactions: hope that the power of Jesus as lure will reassert itself in an aesthetic context devoid of supernaturalism, a context such that (the language now picks up echoes of van Buren) the vision of Jesus, the free man, free from authority, free from fear, «free to give himself to others, whoever they were «1 — such that this vision in its earthly, human purity will lure our aims to a harmonious concrescence, integrating scientific insight and moral vision and producing a modern, intensely fulfilling human satisfaction.

Both in this article and more extensively in Beyond Humanism, Hartshorne argued that in contrast with the new supernaturalism emerging in European theology the new «theistic naturalism» recognizes that in a certain sense nature is God.

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

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.

The solution offered may seem nothing but a pietistic leap into supernaturalism: «There shall be no poor with thee... if only thou diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God to observe to do all this commandment which I command thee this day» (Deut.

Man's total dependence on and submission to an authoritarian God is also in tension with human responsibility and maturity; supernaturalism has too often resulted in the repression rather than the fulfillment of man's natural vitalities.

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

Although many «conservative» Christians seem to be committed to the mechanistic view of nature with the accompanying «supernaturalism» which separates God from the world, what they are conserving has little to do with the Bible.

They were nonpolitical, not in the sense of segregation from political life and interests, as the signs of a purely «spiritual» change in the world, say in human hearts, but in the sense of total supernaturalism: the whole present world order, with its politics and its oppression, its hunger and its hatred, was to be completely done away.

Thus while we guard against silly supernaturalism, we may from this script join issue with the ideology of the day.

But furthermore — and this is perhaps Darwin's greatest contribution — he developed a set of new principles that influence the thinking of every person: the living world, through evolution, can be explained without recourse to supernaturalism; essentialism or typology is invalid, and we must adopt population thinking, in which all individuals are unique (vital for education and the refutation of racism); natural selection, applied to social groups, is indeed sufficient to account for the origin and maintenance of altruistic ethical systems; cosmic teleology, an intrinsic process leading life automatically to ever greater perfection, is fallacious, with all seemingly teleological phenomena explicable by purely material processes; and determinism is thus repudiated, which places our fate squarely in our own evolved hands.

Supernaturalism and superhumanism are equally incompatible with sane, sound, enduring cultures.

I have asked you what supernaturalism is, but you haven't shown, that supernaturalism has an existence, and as you agreed with that there is only one nature or only one naturalism (order), you have agreed that a supernaturalism can not exist beside nature.