spiritual naturalism

Etymology
A calque of (coined by Joris-Karl Huysmans from  and ).

Noun

 * 1) A worldview that reveres nature, without belief in the supernatural.
 * 2) * 1861, “Davis, Andrew Jackson” (encyclopedia article), in George Ripley and Charles Anderson Dana (editors), The New American Cyclopædia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge, D. Appleton and Company, Volume VI, page 286:
 * The book embraces a wide range of subjects, ontological, cosmical, theological, spiritual, and social, which are presented in the aspect of a unitary system, the pervading animus of which is a kind of attenuated and semi-spiritual naturalism, which ignores and repudiates any special divinity or sacredness attaching to the teachings of the Bible.
 * 1) * 1891 December, Edward Dowden, “The ‘Interviewer’ Abroad” (magazine article), in John Holmes Agnew and Walter Hilliard Bidwell (editors), The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, page 836:
 * The possibility of a “spiritual naturalism” has been conceived by M. Huysmans.
 * The possibility of a “spiritual naturalism” has been conceived by M. Huysmans.