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Nature is enough : religious naturalism and the meaning of life / Loyal Rue.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2011.Description: 1 online resource (x, 165 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781441699077
  • 1441699074
  • 143843801X
  • 9781438438016
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nature is enough.DDC classification:
  • 211/.8 22
LOC classification:
  • BL65.N35 R84 2011eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Nature Is Enough; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part 1. The Meaning of Life; 2. The Reality of Meaning; 3. The Emergence of Meaning; Part 2. Religious Naturalism; 4. Religion Naturalized, Nature Sanctified; 5. Confessions of a Religious Naturalist; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.
Summary: Claims that the natural world, as opposed to a supernatural realm, can inspire a religious sensibility and a conviction that life is meaningful. Nature is enough: enough to allow us to find meaning in life and to answer our religious sensibilities. This is the position of religious naturalists, who deny the existence of a deity and a supernatural realm. In this book, Loyal Rue answers critics by describing how religious naturalism can provide a satisfying vision of the meaning of human existence. The work begins with a discussion of how to evaluate the meaning of life itself, referencing a range of thought from ancient Greek philosophy to the Abrahamic traditions to the Enlightenment to contemporary process and postmodern philosophies. Ultimately proposing meaning as an emergent property of living organisms, Rue writes that a meaningful life comes through happiness and virtue. Spiritual qualities that combine evolutionary cosmology and biocentric morality are described: reverence, gratitude, awe, humility, relatedness, compassion, and hope. Rue looks at why religious naturalism is not currently more of a movement, but nevertheless predicts that it will become the prevailing religious sensibility.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)408723

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Nature Is Enough; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; Part 1. The Meaning of Life; 2. The Reality of Meaning; 3. The Emergence of Meaning; Part 2. Religious Naturalism; 4. Religion Naturalized, Nature Sanctified; 5. Confessions of a Religious Naturalist; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z.

Claims that the natural world, as opposed to a supernatural realm, can inspire a religious sensibility and a conviction that life is meaningful. Nature is enough: enough to allow us to find meaning in life and to answer our religious sensibilities. This is the position of religious naturalists, who deny the existence of a deity and a supernatural realm. In this book, Loyal Rue answers critics by describing how religious naturalism can provide a satisfying vision of the meaning of human existence. The work begins with a discussion of how to evaluate the meaning of life itself, referencing a range of thought from ancient Greek philosophy to the Abrahamic traditions to the Enlightenment to contemporary process and postmodern philosophies. Ultimately proposing meaning as an emergent property of living organisms, Rue writes that a meaningful life comes through happiness and virtue. Spiritual qualities that combine evolutionary cosmology and biocentric morality are described: reverence, gratitude, awe, humility, relatedness, compassion, and hope. Rue looks at why religious naturalism is not currently more of a movement, but nevertheless predicts that it will become the prevailing religious sensibility.