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- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press
- ISSN
- 2156-4795
Abstract
m artin o . y alcin / d rew u niversity Introduction: Can Naturalism Embrace Pantheism? merican naturalists all agree that traditional theism, with its belief in a supernatural personal god who is absolutely transcendent to A nature, is inconsistent with the view that nature is all that there is. y et despite the rejection of the traditional g od of theism, some naturalists have found pantheism, with its belief in a divinity thoroughly immanent to nature, congenial. n onetheless, no philosophically rigorous and systematic juxtaposition of the metaphysical and ethical commitments of pantheism with those of naturalism has been undertaken. This essay seeks to fill that gap by investigating the viability of pantheism from the perspective of the ordinal naturalism of Justus b uchler. s everal reasons can be adduced for the choice of b uchler’s ordinal naturalism. f irst, b uchler’s ordinal naturalism is in my estimation the most philosophically austere presentation of the natu- ralistic position. b ecause b uchler’s ordinal naturalism is unrelenting in its defense of the naturalistic position that whatever is, in whatever way it is, is in and of nature, his form of naturalism is ideally suited for making explicit the claims
Journal
American Journal of Theology & Philosophy – University of Illinois Press
Published: Sep 21, 2011