| 单词 | religion of nature |
| 释义 | > as lemmasreligion of nature religion of nature n. (a) = natural religion n.; (b) a religion involving the worship of natural objects and phenomena in place of a more formal system of religious belief. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > kinds of religions > [noun] > natural natural religion1622 religion of nature1622 naturalisma1641 neologism1827 nature-religion1853 pre-animism1910 society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > other non-Christian sects > nature > [noun] natural religion1622 religion of nature1622 1622 G. Goodman Creatures praysing God 32 If you consider the Creatures, betweene God and God, in stead of a naturall discourse, here you haue a religion of nature. 1730 M. Tindal (title) Christianity as old as Creation, a republication of the Religion of Nature. 1827 F. A. Walter tr. B. G. Niebuhr Rom. Hist. I. xxii. 265 The early religion of the Latins was a religion of nature [Ger. Naturdienst]. 1895 J. Kidd Morality & Relig. v. 191 Vedism..was a religion of nature. The objects of its worship..were the powers of nature. 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience iv. 91 In that ‘theory of evolution’ which..has within the past twenty-five years swept so rapidly over Europe and America, we see the ground laid for a new sort of religion of Nature, which has entirely displaced Christianity from the thought of a large part of our generation. 1954 R. N. Stromberg Relig. Liberalism 18th-Cent. Eng. iii. 31 Committed to a religion of nature, they [sc. deists] suspected that the whole Christian revelation was no more than a tissue of lies and fables. 1961 D. G. James Matthew Arnold i. 22 The essay itself is given up chiefly to a warm exposition of her religion of nature. 1997 N. Walter Humanism 49 Ernst Haeckel, the German advocate of Darwinism (and inventor of Ecology in 1866), advocated a religion of nature called Monism. < as lemmas |
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