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  • Further down on page 5, he quotes Pennock as saying, "Supernaturalism is not allowed [in science] because it is not testable."

    A physicist on the supernatural 2006

  • Supernaturalism is replaced by rational understanding and any persistence of spectral or demonic figures is seen to be an effect of mental disorder, a "strange and temporary delusion" signalling the breakdown of normal mental functioning.

    Reading Machines 2005

  • One thing the three songs have in common with each other, and with Abrams's Natural Supernaturalism, is a three-part pattern of connection, loss, and return to a (now transformed) connection.

    How to Save 'Tintern Abbey' from New-Critical Pedagogy (in Three Minutes Fifty-Six Seconds) 2002

  • Free thoughted, earnestly disposed toward the acquirement and dissemination of absolute spiritual truth, as was not unnatural, I thoroughly investigated the 'Supernaturalism' of the day.

    The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 3, March, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • Parker virtually told the Christian minister that he must reprove profitable and popular sins, or else stand at great disadvantage in the trial between Rationalism and Supernaturalism which is vexing the age.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 Various

  • Though studies of romanticism that depended centrally upon that thesis, like M.H. Abrams's Natural Supernaturalism (1971), have been subjected to sustained critique, the version of secularization upon which they relied has not necessarily been abandoned.

    Introduction 2008

  • Hegel's account of the secular has dominated the study of English Romanticism at least since M.H. Abrams's Natural Supernaturalism, with its view of the secular as an internalized apocalypse, a naturalizing or psychologizing of the supernatural or spiritual.

    Romantic Fear 2008

  • Supernaturalism is invoked to protect those sacred values.

    Energy and Society~ Chapter 9~ Capitalism in Theory and in Fact 2009

  • I personally know active Christian clergy who from the pulpit make statements like "I am an atheist because I am an a-theist," and "Supernaturalism is all phoney, baloney."

    Debunking Debunking Christianity Christianity James F. McGrath 2009

  • Supernaturalism is limiting and prohibitive of diversity.

    Naturalism James F. McGrath 2008

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