Citations:metanatural


 * 1967, William Horosz, Religion in Philosophical and Cultural Perspective (Van Nostrand):
 * Old cultures which spawned this innovation were oriented to views which featured nature and humanity. The age into which we are now rapidly moving will likely feature a metanatural world, and the old human values will be transformed ...
 * 1975, Robert K. Morris, Paradoxes of Order: Some Perspectives on the Fiction of V. S. Naipaul (University of Missouri Press):
 * Backtracking a bit, one notes a metaphysical (or metanatural) movement throughout: from inanimate (boats) to animal (dogs) to human (the people in the streets) to suprahuman (all the birds).
 * 1987, J. Baird Callicott, Companion to A sand county almanac: interpretive & critical essays (University of Wisconsin Press):
 * We are more than natural beings; we are metanatural — not to say, "supernatural" — beings. But then our moral community is limited to only those beings who share our transcendence of nature, i.e., to human beings ...
 * 1991, Ahron Soloveichik, Logic of the Heart, Logic of the Mind:
 * A ketz nistar means that it is possible that the whole redemption will be realized not in accordance with natural processes, not within the framework of history, but on a metanatural level. The Messiah will come not within the framework of history ...
 * 1997, Michael Lomatuway'ma, Ekkehart Malotki, The Bedbugs' Night Dance and Other Hopi Tales of Sexual Encounter (ISBN 9780803282391):
 * We must therefore look for comparisons not among the overtly divine myths of classical antiquity but among those traditions that feature human beings in a world affected by magical or metanatural forces.
 * 2006, Polger, Natural Minds (ISBN 9780262264167), page 247:
 * The idea is that metanaturalism is trivial or nearly trivial, but that it is a substantial and nontrivial claim that current naturalistic theorizing (i.e., in physics and biology, and by extension current naturalism in philosophy of mind) are metanatural.
 * 2012, Walter Mosley, The Gift of Fire and On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion (ISBN 9781429985765):
 * He was inextricably intertwined with the nature of that metanatural being. But Prometheus drew his strength from Logos and Logos from Ma'at.
 * 2012, Samuel A. Nigro, Everybody for Everybody (ISBN 9781477114698), page 174:
 * Now that is what I call metanatural selection consistent with the metastability of elementary particles of physics.
 * 2013, Louise Westling, The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment (ISBN 9781107029927), page 31:
 * Landscape features such as overgrown Neolithic mounds (in Irish síde, in Welsh gorseddau), rivers, wells, countryside, forest, islands, or the sea itself, prove portals into this metanatural dimension.
 * 2013, Ismail Raji Al-Faruqi, The Essence of Islamic Civilization (ISBN 9781565645974), page 24:
 * By aesthetic experience is meant the experience through the senses, of an a priori, metanatural essence that acts as the normative principle of the object beheld. It is what the object ought to be.