Religious Naturalism in a Unitarian Universalist Context Paper Presented to General Assembly

There are a number of twenty and twenty-first century religious thinkers who may be grouped together under the name Religious Naturalism. Who are the religious naturalists? Historical roots go back at least to Spinoza and include Henry David Thoreau, and some poets including Whitman and Robinson Jeffers. Former religious naturalists included Samuel Alexander, Santayana, Dewey, Mordecai Kaplan, Ralph Burhoe, founder of Zygon, and such Chicago theologians as Wieman