Crossword clues for supernaturalism
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Supernaturalism \Su`per*nat"u*ral*ism\, n.
The quality or state of being supernatural; supernaturalness.
(Theol.) The doctrine of a divine and supernatural agency in the production of the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in the grace which renews and sanctifies men, -- in opposition to the doctrine which denies the agency of any other than physical or natural causes in the case. [Written also supranaturalism.]
Wiktionary
n. 1 The quality or condition of being supernatural. 2 A belief in the doctrine of supernatural or divine agency as manifested in the world, in human event, religious revelation, miracle, etc. 3 A belief in supernatural intelligent cause, force, agency, power as producing effect in this world.
WordNet
n. a belief in forces beyond ordinary human understanding
the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces [syn: supernaturalness]
Wikipedia
Supernaturalism, as opposed to naturalism, is a belief in the supernatural in interpreting the world or attempting to control it. It can vary from those who believe that supernatural powers or entities are constantly or continuously intervening in the natural world to those who, like Deists, believe that only the origins of the natural world and its laws should be sought in the supernatural.
Usage examples of "supernaturalism".
Rationalism and Supernaturalism became the principal division of theological schools.
My supernaturalism and firm belief in revelation are no less opposed to theological liberalism.
One adhered to the cold Supernaturalism of the eighteenth century, the other to a system of philosophical Deism.
From our own liberal theology, the elements of unnaturalism, preternaturalism, supernaturalism, have disappeared almost as completely as they have from the systems of science.
When the supernatural caught her interest, the result was a group of short stories which combined domestic realism with supernaturalism and these have proved very influential.
Supernaturalism consists in general in the conviction that God has revealed himself supernaturally and immediately.
But there is a crasser and a more refined supernaturalism, and it is to the refined division that most philosophers at the present day belong.