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	Natural theology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Natural theology (or natural religion) is theology based on reason and ordinary experience.
		Natural theology was originally part of philosophy and theology, and theologians still study it; but most of its content also forms part of the philosophy of religion.
		They were established to "promote and diffuse the study of Natural Theology in the widest sense of the term— in other words, the knowledge of God." The term natural theology as used by Gifford means theology supported by science and not dependent on the miraculous.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Natural_theology (710 words)

	Natural religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A synonym for "natural theology"; religion based on reason and ordinary experience rather than supernatural revelation, although not necessarily denying it.
		This usage was popular in the 18th and 19th centuries— see, for example, David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
		In the modern study of religion it's used to refer to the notion that there is some sort of natural, spontaneous religious apprehension of the world common to all human beings.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Natural_religion (140 words)

	religion - definition by dict.die.net
		Religions, by which are meant the modes of divine worship proper to different tribes, nations, or communities, and based on the belief held in common by the members of them severally.
		As distinguished from sanctity, religion is the means by which sanctity is achieved, sanctity denoting primarily that purity of heart and life which results from habitual communion with God, and a sense of his continual presence.
		Natural religion, a religion based upon the evidences of a God and his qualities, which is supplied by natural phenomena.
	dict.die.net /religion (854 words)

	natural theology > about > 2 toward natural religion project
		From the natural point of view, we are all one species intimately linked to all the other species of life on earth.
		Such a religion, based on theology as a natural science, is naturally to be named natural religion.
		Yet the functions of the world's diverse religions have never been fully described and analyzed, nor has the impact of adherence to those religions on the health and survival of the populations that practice them.
	www.naturaltheology.net /About/a02Tnrp.html (1303 words)

	TKR Spring 1999 - American Civil Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Religion is among the most inadequate category designations in our current cultural lexicon, and scholars regularly make unsuccessful attempts to throw it out.
		Nevertheless, this idea of a natural religion of all religious institutions provides a bridge for us between the institutional religions, whether traditional or modern, and the "civil religion" that all Americans share whether they are formally religious or not.
		American civil religion is that transcendent loyalty to the values and purposes of American civilization that makes a community out of an individualistic and culturally diverse people.
	www.pbk.org /pubs/Keyreporter/Spring99/rouner2.htm (702 words)

	Hume's Dialogues
		This species of scepticism is fatal to knowledge, not to religion; since we find, that those who make greatest profession of it, give often their assent, not only to the great truths of Theism and natural theology, but even to the most absurd tenets which a traditional superstition has recommended to them.
		Though the maxims of Nature be in general very frugal, yet instances of this kind are far from being rare; and any one of them is a sufficient proof of design, and of a benevolent design, which gave rise to the order and arrangement of the universe.
		Other people, even of good sense and the best inclined to religion, feel always some deficiency in such arguments, though they are not perhaps able to explain distinctly where it lies; a certain proof that men ever did, and ever will derive their religion from other sources than from this species of reasoning.
	www.anselm.edu /homepage/dbanach/dnr.htm (19088 words)

	natural theology > about > 3 religion
		So Reynolds and Tanner, writing on the social ecology of religion, concentrate their attention on the role of religion at the salient points in the cycle of human life, birth, death, disease and so on.
		The formal content of religion is thus the psychological equivalent of the biological genome and has a similar function.
		The natural religion project begins with theology, where we study the general nature of mind, culminating in the biggest imaginable mind, the mind of god.
	www.naturaltheology.net /About/a03Religion.html (1707 words)

	Natural Religion
		And so we have such great reactions as asceticism and monasticism and puritanism, with their buffetings of the body, with their suspicion of mere natural beauty and adornment, with their severity of speech, with their of worldliness, and, in the days of their birth, of the wonder and cleanness of the souls they produce.
		This tendency to react against the merely natural way, and against their merely natural way of interpreting life, is a tendency which masters the Church as such regular intervals, and in such similar circumstances that we may safely say that it is an inevitable thing.
		Human nature is something altogether different from mere nature; and the true God comes to us not as we consider idly the general fruitfulness of the world, but as we listen to our own that private misgivings, and then lift our eyes to Him who gave Himself for our redemption.
	latter-rain.com /home/tim/naturalreligion.htm (1278 words)

	David Hume, Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, Part II
		Since therefore the effects resemble each other, we are led to infer, by all the rules of analogy, that the causes also resemble; and that the Author of Nature is somewhat similar to the mind of man; though possessed of much larger faculties, proportioned to the grandeur of the work, which he has executed.
		Nature, we find, even from our limited experience, possesses an infinite number of springs and principles, which incessantly discover themselves on every change of her position and situation.
		But Galilaeo, beginning with the moon, proved its similarity in every particular to the earth; its convex figure, its natural darkness when not illuminated, its density, its distinction into solid and liquid, the variations of its phases, the mutual illuminations of the earth and moon, their mutual eclipses, the inequalities of the lunar surface, andc.
	www.philosophyofreligion.info /dcnr2.html (3965 words)

	David Hume -- Writings on Religion [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The larger aim of his critique was to disentangle philosophy from religion and thus allow philosophy to pursue its ends without either rational over-extension or psychological corruption.
		Philosophers of the middle ages developed a variety of logical proofs regarding the existence and nature of God, three of which were especially influential in the centuries to come.
		His thesis is that natural instincts - such as fear and the propensity to adulate - are the true causes of popular religious belief, and not divine intervention or rational argument.
	www.utm.edu /research/iep/h/humereli.htm (4187 words)

	Hume, The Natural History of Religion (1757): The Online Library of Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		That religion, after it was extinct, would also be cited as an instance of those contradictions, which arise from the gross, vulgar, natural conceptions of mankind, opposed to their continual propensity towards flattery and exaggeration.
		It is remarkable that the principles of religion have a kind of flux and reflux in the human mind, and that men have a natural tendency to rise from idolatry to theism, and to sink again from theism into idolatry.
		But nature is too hard for all their endeavors, and suffers not the obscure, glimmering light afforded in those shadowy regions, to equal the strong impressions made by common sense and by experience.
	oll.libertyfund.org /Texts/Hume0129/HistoryReligion/0211_Bk.html (16875 words)

	Schulers Books (Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion - 1/18)
		Accurate and regular argument, indeed, such as is now expected of philosophical inquirers, naturally throws a man into the methodical and didactic manner; where he can immediately, without preparation, explain the point at which he aims; and thence proceed, without interruption, to deduce the proofs on which it is established.
		To deliver a SYSTEM in conversation, scarcely appears natural; and while the dialogue-writer desires, by departing from the direct style of composition, to give a freer air to his performance, and avoid the appearance of Author and Reader, he is apt to run into a worse inconvenience, and convey the image of Pedagogue and Pupil.
		My youth rendered me a mere auditor of their disputes; and that curiosity, natural to the early season of life, has so deeply imprinted in my memory the whole chain and connection of their arguments, that, I hope, I shall not omit or confound any considerable part of them in the recital.
	www.schulers.com /books/da/d/Dialogues_Concerning_Natural_Religion (1551 words)

	Amazon.com: Dialogues and Natural History of Religion (Oxford World's Classics): Books: David Hume,J. C. A. Gaskin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion: The Posthumous Essays of the Immortality of the Soul and of Suicide by David Hume
		In addition, he suggests certain speculative naturalistic explanations of the existence and nature of the universe; and he claims that it's unclear why an appeal to divine creation is to be preferred to these speculative naturalistic stories of the universe's creation.
		For The Natural History is the work in which Hume sets out to trace the sources of religious belief to certain natural principles of the human mind.
	www.amazon.com /Dialogues-Natural-History-Religion-Classics/dp/0192838768 (3111 words)

	Department of Religion, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Florida
		Understanding the complex, reciprocal relationships among human cultures, religions, and the earth’s living systems is vital to addressing contemporary environmental problems.
		Religion and Nature is the first US doctoral program to address the religious dimensions of human relationships with the natural environment, and is designed to respond to the urgent need to look at human
		Students in Religion and Nature are required to develop a sub-field competency and take the core courses in one of the two other fields of study, thus preparing them to teach as well in the fields of Religion in the Americasor Religions of Asia.
	web.religion.ufl.edu /gradprog/field-nature.html (626 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, and the Natural History of Religion (Oxford World's Classics): ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		His final work, 'Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion', was published posthumously in 1779, although work had begun on it as early as the 1750s.
		Natural religion is the idea that we come to know and understand God (and, consequently, what God wants or expects of us, if anything) simply from nature and our sensory perceptions, as well as our interpretations (emotion and rational) of this kind of understanding.
		Revealed religion is primary what most religions base themselves upon - the burning bush to Moses, the resurrection and post-resurrection appearances to the Apostles, the Buddha's enlightenment under the tree - these are examples of revelation.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Dialogues-Concerning-Religion-History-Classics/dp/0192838768 (1848 words)

	HUME, DIALOGUES CONCERNING NATURAL RELIGION
		Accurate and regular enquirers, naturally throws a man into the methodical and didactic manner; where he can immediately, without preparation, explain the point at which he aims; and thence proceed, without interruption, to deduce the proofs, on which it is established.
		This species of scepticism is fatal to knowledge, not to religion; since we find, that those who make greatest profession of it, give often their assent, not only to the great truths of theism, and natural theology,2 but even to the most absurd tenets, which a traditional superstition has recommended to them.
		The unity too of the divine nature, it is very difficult, if not absolutely impossible, to deduce merely from contemplating the works of nature; nor will the uniformity alone of the plan, even were it allowed, give us any assurance of that attribute.
	sun.soci.niu.edu /~phildept/Dye/Dialogues.html (19826 words)

	The Natural Religion of Jesus
		Since these organized religions began at various times and in various geographical locations, none of these religions have been known by all human beings in all places and at all times on earth.
		Jesus was considered a religious heretic by the leaders of the organized religion in his time and place.
		Natural religion, as taught by Jesus, is based on these two natural laws that are inherent in human nature.
	www.onr.com /user/bejo/natreljesus.htm (943 words)

	Abraham Taylor, The Insufficiency of Natural Religion (1755)
		The following discourse seems to be peculiarly calculated to overturn the false idea of natural religion, imbibed by Dr. Clark the Arian and his disciples, and consequently to crush that brood of errors which have sprung from it; too many of which are to be found in the before-mentioned sermons [of Jonathan Mayhew].
		The common notion persons now seem to have of natural religion, is, that [it] is a body of principles and duties, which men gather from reason and Scripture, receiving into their systems [philosophies] whatsoever they like in revelation [the Bible], and leaving out all such doctrines as they do not approve of.
		Therefore, in our day, natural religion is decked in plumes borrowed from Scripture, and then held up in opposition to it, as a perfect rule, and as such not needing the assistance of revelation [Scripture].
	www.belcherfoundation.org /natural_religion.htm (747 words)

	Natural Law Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The guidelines provided are structured religion principles belonging to major religions such as Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and others.
		About 70% of religion principles are relevant to each of the mentioned religions.
		The guidelines are particularly useful because the religion principles are structured in to various distinct and coherent headings within a hierarchy, which makes the religion principles easy to adapt.
	www.geocities.com /natlaw1/Guide/guide1.html (418 words)

	Union of Natural Religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Union of Natural Religion is a religious oasis.
		The Union of Natural Religion also wants to protect its members and their religious practices, such as the use of sacramental herbs such as cannabis.
		The Union of Natural Religion is a life-affirming and life-transforming experience.
	www.naturalreligion.net (135 words)

	The Natural Religion: Satanism
		The oldest religion of the natural world is reproduction, feeding and territory.
		Those who claim that their religion is natural truth or "old", must surely include in their reverence of all things green the blood and strife of natural life.
		Nature is birth, sex, death, instincts, survival, predator and prey.
	www.dpjs.co.uk /natural.html (927 words)

	Natural Religion \| Naturalism \| Philosophy of Religion \| Questia.com Online Library
		Natural Religion and Christian Theology » Read Now
		...The Metaphysics of Theism is the definitive study of the natural theology of Thomas Aquinas, the greatest of medieval philosophers, written by one of the world's most...
		For we may, I think, take...closest possible relation to Natural Religion; that it must denote the reasoned...implied in...
	www.questia.com /library/religion/natural-religion.jsp (436 words)

	Deism, the natural religion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The belief that the study of Nature and the exercise of reason are better guides to the existence and character of God than the study of sacred scriptures.
		It tended to dislike formal religious observance, ritual and priests, and to believe that all the major religions contain essentially the same message.
		The Historical Argument for the Resurrection of Jesus During the Deist Controversy (Texts and Studies in Religion, Vol 23).
	www.occultopedia.com /d/deism.htm (622 words)

	NaturalTheology
		Natural theology is the branch of philosophy concerned with what can
		It includes both the development and analysis of arguments for God's existence, as well as reflection on the nature and attributes of God.
		.a full range of resources for natural theology, from classical and contemporary arguments for and against God's existence to reflections on the relationship between natural theology and Christian faith and Biblical revelation.
	www.homestead.com /NaturalTheology (112 words)

	Church of Reality
		The Church of Reality is a "Natural Religion" based on Reality.
		What this means is that if the Church of Reality didn't exist and a wise person was given the task of creating a church based on reality that they would come up with a religion that is approximately the same as what the Church of Reality is now.
		It is our position that the Church of Reality is, or at least should be, a reflection of the natural laws of reality.
	www.churchofreality.org /wisdom/religion_of_reality/religion/natural_religion.html (555 words)

	Amazon.com: Natural History of Religion: Books: David Hume (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone (Torchbooks) by Immanuel Kant
		It appears to me, that, if we consider the improvement of human society, from rude beginnings to a state of greater perfection, polytheism or idolatry was, and necessarily must have been, the first and most ancient religion of mankind.
		Religion and Hume's Legacy (Claremont Studies in the Philosophy of Religion) by D. Phillips on 6 pages
	www.amazon.com /Natural-History-Religion-David-Hume/dp/0804703337 (613 words)

	210 - Natural Religion [LivingWeb Library]
		Find out why the Democratic Presidential candidate is in the eye of a controversy over his religious faith.
		Natural pantheism--Largest pantheist web resource in the world
		Pantheist Association for Nature--A religious conservation organization celebrating the wonder, beauty, and divinity of Nature.
	www.livingweb.com /library/210.htm (187 words)

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