Natural religion

Japanese: natural religion(英語表記)naturalreligion
Natural religion

…In contrast to the belief in a personal God who is said to be in charge of all things and who punishes and rewards human merits and demerits, this term refers to the belief in a God who created the heavens and the earth but who ceased to intervene arbitrarily in the human world after the act of creation and who governs the universe solely based on the rational laws inherent in nature. It is also sometimes called natural religion. Therefore, it refers to a heretical theology that, in European thought, with the development of civil society and the rise of natural science that began with the Glorious Revolution in England in the late 17th century, denies the traditional doctrines of the Church of England through the penetration of rational speculation, denies the Trinity, revelation, and miracles, and adopts a symbolic and metaphorical interpretation of the Bible. …

*Some of the terminology used to refer to "natural religion" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…人間の功過に対して賞罰を課し広く万物の摂理をつかさどるとされる人格神への信仰に対して,天地創造の主体ではあるが創造行為の後は人間世界への恣意的な介入を中止し,自然に内在する合理的な法にもとづいてのみ宇宙を統治するものとしての神への信仰を意味する用語。自然宗教natural religionと呼ばれる場合もある。したがってそれはヨーロッパ思想の中で,17世紀後半のイギリス名誉革命に始まる市民社会の発展と自然科学の興起に伴い,合理的な思弁の浸透によって従来の伝統的な国教会の教義を否認し,三位一体や啓示・奇跡を否定して聖書の象徴的・比喩的解釈を採用する異端としての神学を指す。…

※「natural religion」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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