Nature Is Enough : Religious Naturalism and the Meaning of Life
by Rue, LoyalFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2012-07-02
Publisher(s): State Univ of New York Pr
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Summary
Claims that the natural world, as opposed to a supernatural realm, can inspire a religious sensibility and a conviction that life is meaningful.
Author Biography
Loyal Rue is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Luther College. He is the author of Everybody's Story: Wising Up to the Epic of Evolution, also published by SUNY Press, and Religion Is Not about God: How Spiritual Traditions Nurture Our Biological Nature and What to Expect When They Fail.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction: What Is a Human Being For? | p. 1 |
| The Meaning of Life | |
| The Reality of Meaning | p. 19 |
| Meaning in the World | p. 19 |
| Meaning in the Mind | p. 33 |
| The Illusion of Meaning | p. 42 |
| The Emergence of Meaning | p. 51 |
| What Is Emergence? | p. 51 |
| Revisiting the Options | p. 54 |
| Interlude: A Model of Emergence | p. 78 |
| The Miracle of Meaning | p. 83 |
| Religious Naturalism | |
| Religion Naturalized, Nature Sanctified | p. 91 |
| Bringing Religion Down to Earth | p. 92 |
| The Heart of Naturalism | p. 96 |
| Taking Nature to Heart | p. 109 |
| Is Nature Enough? | p. 116 |
| The Promise of Religious Naturalism | p. 122 |
| Confessions of a Religious Naturalist | p. 131 |
| God and Creation | p. 132 |
| Sin and Grace | p. 137 |
| Evil and Suffering | p. 140 |
| Death and Salvation | p. 144 |
| Faith, Hope, and Love | p. 149 |
| Notes | p. 153 |
| Bibliography | p. 157 |
| Index | p. 161 |
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