Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction: The Religious Naturalists to Be Discussed
Current Research on Religious Naturalism
Metaphysical Grounding Problems
Chapter Overview

1. Explicating Religious Naturalism
Introducing Religious Naturalism
The Nature of Naturalism
Religious Aspects of Reality
Religious Naturalism and Traditional Religion
The Function of Religious Language
Conclusions

2. What Is Naturalistic about Religious Naturalism?
The Central Pillars of Naturalism
Monistic Naturalism
Pluralistic Naturalism
Summary of Monistic Naturalism and Pluralistic Naturalism
Conclusions

3. The Metaphysical Grounding Problems of Monism and Pluralism
Monistic Naturalism and the Issue of Antireductionism
Pluralistic Naturalism and Emergence Theory
Some Grounding Problems for Pluralistic Naturalism
Conclusions

4. The Religious Dimension of Religious Naturalism
Religious Realism in Rue and Crosby
Religious Antirealism in Hardwick and Drees
Understanding Pragmatic Religious Realism
Conclusions

5. The Problem of Religious Discourse in Religious Naturalism
The Tension between Physicalism and Christian Faith
Limit-Questions and the Status of Naturalism
Pragmatic Realism
Functional Religion and Theological Realism
Objectivist Religion and the Problem of Evil
Conclusions

6. Alternative Ontology 1: Naturalistic Options
Liberal Naturalism
Agnostic Naturalism
Pragmatic Naturalism
Conclusions

7. Alternative Ontology 2: Theistic Options
Background to Panentheism
Why Panentheism Entails Dualism
The Positive Status of Panentheism and the Question of Religious Naturalism
God and Values: A Proposal by Fiona Ellis
Conclusions

8. Alternative Ontology 3: Panpsychism
Panpsychism Today
Three Arguments for Panpsychism
Between Strong and Weak Panpsychism
The Panpsychist Dimension of Emergence Theory
Metaphysical Objections to Panpsychism
The Religious Relevance of Panpsychism
Conclusions

9. Concluding Remarks and Looking Ahead
Panpsychism and Teleology
Panpsychism and Eco-Ethics
Subjectivity and the Promise of Panpsychism

Notes
References
Name Index
Subject Index

About the Author

Mikael Leidenhag is the Science and Theology Editor in the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.