Speculative Naturalism: A Bleak Theology in Light of the Tragic

Autor:	Leon Niemoczynski
Rok vydání:	2014
Předmět:	Cultural Studies Ecology Philosophy Sociological naturalism Religious studies Metaphysics Religious naturalism Metaphysical naturalism German idealism Mainstream Process philosophy Theology Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Naturalism
Zdroj:	Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture. 8:236-253
ISSN:	1749-4915 1749-4907
DOI:	10.1558/jsrnc.v8i2.236
Popis:	Theological perspective upon the relationship between deity and creature may not be as radically open to a full range of possible value as has once been thought. If one is seeking a capacious view of deity, creatures, and nature, I contend that not only should one account for continuity, wholeness, healing, salvation, warmth, benevolence, and joy in one’s religious metaphysics, but also for discontinuity, difference, diremption, rupture, trauma, tragedy, melancholy, coldness, and the more somber tones of the divine life. My exploration of this darker side of religious naturalism, a ‘bleak theology’ or ‘speculative naturalism’, as I am calling it, begins by articulating its opposite in the axiologically positive evaluation of nature and deity found within the mainstream of American religious naturalism. I then offer some speculative theses from the bleak or speculative naturalist perspective and argue why this darker side of religious naturalism ought to be accounted for.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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