Preface 1. Introduction: What Is a Human Being For? Part I. The Meaning of Life 2. The Reality of Meaning Meaning in the World Meaning in the Mind The Illusion of Meaning 3. The Emergence of Meaning What Is Emergence? Revisiting the Options Interlude: A Model of Emergence The Miracle of Meaning Part II. RELIGIOUS NATURALISM 4. Religion Naturalized, Nature Sanctified Bringing Religion Down to Earth The Heart of Naturalism Taking Nature to Heart Is Nature Enough? The Promise of Religious Naturalism 5. Confessions of a Religious Naturalist God and Creation Sin and Grace Evil and Suffering Death and Salvation Faith, Hope, and Love Notes Bibliography Index
Loyal Rue is Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Luther College. He is the author of Everybody's Story: Wising Up to the Epic of Evolution, also published by SUNY Press, and Religion Is Not about God: How Spiritual Traditions Nurture Our Biological Nature and What to Expect When They Fail.
"...one can find insightful discussions of, among other things, faith, hope, and love in a godless universe and how one should face death and suffering if one rejects the reality of both God and an afterlife." - Philosophy, Theology and the Sciences "Loyal Rue manages the difficult task of being both profound and accessible, and I am grateful. Now when people ask me their most difficult questions concerning the meaning of life I can point them in the direction of this wonderful book." - Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of 36 Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction "Religious naturalism is an approach to experiencing and appreciating nature with the awe, reverence, and respect that are usually associated with religion, but without the metaphysical paraphernalia of the latter. In this book, Loyal Rue insightfully sees the meaning in reality, examines the emergence of meaning, and incorporates the dimension of meaning into naturalized religion. He concludes the book with thoughtful personal responses to topics that provoke us all: God, creation, sin, grace, faith, and such, and the meaning of life itself. This is a persuasive and powerful call to religious naturalism, and will become one of the classics in the literature on the subject." - Varadaraja V. Raman, author of Truth and Tension in Science and Religion
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