Natural religion

asserted that Islam was the natural religion of black people, broadly drawing upon the narratives of African Muslims captured centuries ago and sold as slaves in the Americas.

Rasmussen then discusses their growing friendship (chapter 3), Hume's conflict with the "Kirk" (Church of Scotland) (chapter 4), Smith's work on The Theory of Moral Sentiments (chapter 5), Hume's lauded time in France (chapter 6), Hume's strange conflict with that moody and paranoid philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau (chapter 7), the final years of their friendship (chapter 8), Smith's publication of An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations (chapter 9), the dispute over publishing Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion (chapter 10), Hume's last days (chapter 11), Smith's remembrance of and eulogy to Hume (chapter 12), and, at last, Smith's final years in Edinburgh (epilogue).

Islam is a natural religion and the environment is considered the most valuable God-given gift.

John Lindow also undertakes a philological analysis, in this case of Snorri's Eddic listing of the ranks of male and female gods, noting compelling parallels between the roles and numbers of 'subsidiary' gods and the ranks of Christian apostles and saints, possibly as a means for grafting a pre-Christian natural religion onto the ancestry of Christian Iceland.

Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion closes with an endorsement of the very position that it has consistently attacked, namely, belief in an orderer.

Redeployed in poetic encounters across terrestrial and cultural frontiers, the Blakean infinite often registers the problems in knowledge and being accompanying new scientific representations of the natural world: in the texts I explore below--"Milton," "There Is No Natural Religion [b]," and "Visions of the Daughters of Albion"--the encounter with the infinite assumes form in the contact with other worlds whose laws, in nature as well as culture, appear wholly differentiated or uncertain.

Ahnert follows the ramifications of these two ideas and develops, in their light, new and fascinating interpretations of such crucial issues in the life of Moderatism as patronage, natural religion, the status of revelation, and the controversy over the appointment of John Leslie.

(4) Locke's ROC, however, which he claims to be ecumenical in thrust but in opposition to the natural religion of deism, stresses the need for divine revelation for ascertaining right moral principles.

Another essay by Luc Borot deals with religion in Oceana, arguing that it was a state run natural religion, but included references to Christ and Moses as well as lawgivers like Lycurgus.

Ritschl and Baur aligned themselves with Schleiermacher in opposing natural religion, but they did not go so far as to believe a superficial charge against Schleiermacher's alleged claim that the basis for religion was primarily emotion.