spiritual naturalism en · NOUN
Etymology
A calque of French naturalisme spiritualiste (coined by Joris-Karl Huysmans from naturalisme and spiritualiste).
Meanings
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(uncountable) A worldview that reveres nature, without belief in the supernatural.
Spiritual Naturalism, being a rejection of supernaturalism, removes the religious image to further penetrate and intensify […]
2005, Ramun Bjerken, The Archaic Smile: On Spiritual Naturalism, iUniverse, →ISBN, page xiii:The book embraces a wide range of subjects, ontological, cosmical, theological, spiritual, and social, which are presented in the aspect of a unitary system, the pervading animus of which is a kind of attenuated and semi-spiritual naturalism, which ignores and repudiates any special divinity or sacredness attaching to the teachings of the Bible.
1861, “Davis, Andrew Jackson” (encyclopedia article), in George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana (editors), The New American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, D. Appleton and Company, Volume VI, page 286The spiritual philosophy pulls them down, and opens again the fair fields of spiritual naturalism to the contemplation of thinkers.
1869, Epes Sargent, Planchette; Or, The Despair of Science, Roberts Brothers, page 306:This spiritual version of naturalism is perhaps best formulated in the Laws […] This is a clear statement of spiritual naturalism; and it is combined as […]
1945, Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies, Volume I: The Spell of Plato:The possibility of a “spiritual naturalism” has been conceived by M. Huysmans.
1891 December, Edward Dowden, “The ‘Interviewer’ Abroad” (magazine article), in John Holmes Agnew and Walter Hilliard Bidwell (editors), The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 836
Deriveds
Relateds
spiritual · Gaia · pantheism · environmentalism · naturalism · religious naturalism · neo-pantheism
Synonyms
worldview that reveres nature (naturalistic spirituality (less common))