Theistic Naturalism is a series of religious beliefs that rejects
divine intervention
Divine intervention is an event that occurs when a deity (i.e. God or a god) becomes actively involved in changing some situation in human affairs. In contrast to other kinds of divine action, the expression "divine ''intervention''" implies that ...
while keeping
theism
Theism is broadly defined as the belief in the existence of a supreme being or deities. In common parlance, or when contrasted with ''deism'', the term often describes the classical conception of God that is found in monotheism (also referred to ...
.
It is different from traditional or
classical theism
Classical theism is a form of theism in which God is characterized as the absolutely metaphysically ultimate being, in contrast to other conceptions such as pantheism, panentheism, polytheism, deism and process theism.
Classical theism is a for ...
. Theistic naturalists think evolution and naturalism can be in tune with Christianity.
Notable theistic naturalists
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Arthur Peacocke
Arthur Robert Peacocke (29 November 1924 – 21 October 2006) was an English Anglican theologian and biochemist.
Biography
Arthur Robert Peacocke was born in Watford, England, on 29 November 1924. He was educated at Watford Grammar School fo ...
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John B. Cobb
John Boswell Cobb, Jr. (born 9 February 1925) is an American theologian, philosopher, and environmentalist. Cobb is often regarded as the preeminent scholar in the field of process philosophy and process theology, the school of thought associ ...
Criticism
Theistic naturalism has been called out as expanding borders of naturalism too the point anything goes.
Jeffrey Koperski said theistic naturalism sounds like a oxymoron and that both
naturalism and
theism
Theism is broadly defined as the belief in the existence of a supreme being or deities. In common parlance, or when contrasted with ''deism'', the term often describes the classical conception of God that is found in monotheism (also referred to ...
are incompatible.
[{{Cite book, last=Koperski, first=Jeffrey, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UcPADwAAQBAJ&dq=Theistic+Naturalism&pg=PT37, title=Divine Action, Determinism, and the Laws of Nature, date=2019-11-28, publisher=Routledge, isbn=978-0-429-63958-6, language=en]
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References
Naturalism (philosophy)
Theism