SPIRITUALITY FOR NATURALISTS |
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| Authors: | Jerome A. Stone |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Jerome A. Stone is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at William Rainey Harper College, Palatine, IL;2. affiliated community minister with the Unitarian Church of Evanston, IL;3. and on the adjunct faculty of Meadville Lombard Theological School in Chicago. He may be contacted at 2323 McDaniel, #4116, Evanston, IL 60201, USA;4. e‐mail: Jersustone@aol.com. |
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| Abstract: | Abstract The views of eleven writers who develop a naturalized spirituality, from Baruch Spinoza and George Santayana to Sam Harris, André Comte‐Sponville, Ursula Goodenough, and Sharon Welch and others are presented. Then the writer's own theory is developed. This is a pluralistic notion of sacredness, an adjective referring to unmanipulable events of overriding importance. The difficulties in using traditional religious words, such as God and spiritual are addressed. |
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| Keywords: | God naturalism religion religious naturalism reverence sacred spirituality |
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