There is No Natural Religion is a series of philosophical aphorisms by William Blake, written in 1788. Following on from his initial experiments with...
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Natural religion most frequently means the "religion of nature", in which God, the soul, spirits, and all objects of the supernatural are considered as...
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Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is a philosophical work by the Scottish philosopher David Hume, first published in 1779. Through dialogue, three...
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spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. Different religions may or may not contain various...
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a distinction between political theology (the social functions of religion), natural theology and mythical theology. His terminology became part of the...
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Deism (category Philosophy of religion)
reliance on revealed religions or religious authority. Deism emphasizes the concept of natural theology—that is, God's existence is revealed through nature...
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Turtles all the way down (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
David Hume references the story in his 1779 work Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion when arguing against God as an unmoved mover: How, therefore, shall...
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the non-textual The Approach of Doom (1787), All Religions are One and There is No Natural Religion represent Blake's first successful attempt to combine...
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Sumerian religion Sumerian religion was the religion practiced by the people of Sumer, the first literate civilization found in recorded history and based...
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Teleological argument (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
that Confucius was a godless man, and that "the ancient Chinese had no natural religion, since they did not know the creator of the world". However, later...
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A nature religion is a religious movement that believes nature and the natural world is an embodiment of divinity, sacredness or spiritual power. Nature...
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The relationship between religion and science involves discussions that interconnect the study of the natural world, history, philosophy, and theology...
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of three questions: I. Is there really any such thing as natural religion, properly and truly so called? II. If there is, what is it? III. How may a man...
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Problem of evil (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
of evil in Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion is this: [God's] power we allow [is] infinite: Whatever he wills is executed: But neither man nor any...
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African religion used to be referred to as 'traditional' but this is no longer appropriate. 'Traditional' was used to distinguish African religion from Abrahamic...
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Religion in Japan is manifested primarily in Shinto and in Buddhism, the two main faiths, which Japanese people often practice simultaneously. According...
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Theistic rationalism is a hybrid of natural religion, Christianity, and rationalism, in which rationalism is the predominant element. According to Henry...
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Earth-centered religion or nature worship is a system of religion based on the veneration of natural phenomena. It covers any religion that worships the...
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Shinto (redirect from Shinto religion)
religion and as a nature religion. Scholars sometimes call its practitioners Shintoists, although adherents rarely use that term themselves. There is...
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Deism in England and France in the 18th century (category 18th century in religion)
world is operated by natural laws of the Supreme Being. C. J. Betts argues that Deism was never a religion in the usual sense. It was a religion for individuals...
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Religion in China is diverse and most Chinese people are either non-religious or practice a combination of Buddhism and Taoism with a Confucian worldview...
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White magic (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
Naturalis. It is the coming-together of these ideas - early "natural" religions and later philosophical thinking - that Knight suggests is "at the root...
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The Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion, written by 18th-century English Dissenting minister and polymath Joseph Priestley, is a three-volume work...
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David Hume (category Philosophers of religion)
Mathematics, Natural Philosophy, and Natural Religion, are in some measure dependent on the science of Man." The science of man, as Hume explains, is the "only...
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Irreligion (redirect from Non-religion)
rituals have no supernatural significance, and that gods ignore all prayers and worship. Antireligion is opposition or rejection of religion of any kind...
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Max Müller (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
soul that is every day realizing its oneness with the universe. During the course of his Gifford Lectures on the subject of natural religion, Müller was...
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Heathenry (new religious movement) (redirect from Modern Norse religion)
including an animistic view of the cosmos in which the natural world is imbued with spirits. The religion's deities and spirits are honored in sacrificial rites...
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remedy to revealed religion is natural religion, then the solution to civil society is natural society. By connecting natural religion with a primitive...
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concepts are not found in many current and past cultures; there is no equivalent term for religion in many languages. Scholars have found it difficult to...
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States by Twelve as God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, but was republished by Atlantic Books in 2017 with no subtitle. Hitchens posited...
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