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B. T. Newberg

Roots of SN, Part 7: Was Archaic Greece Naturalistic?

July 10, 2014June 5, 2014 by B. T. Newberg

Other civilizations laid the crucial building blocks, but what made Greece so ripe for the rise of naturalism?

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Roots of SN, Part 6: Were Archaic Egypt and Mesopotamia Naturalistic?

July 10, 2014May 1, 2014 by B. T. Newberg

Could there have been strands of naturalism running through archaic civilizations such as Egypt and Mesopotamia?

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Roots of SN, Part 5: Were Early Agricultural Peoples Naturalistic?

April 3, 2014 by B. T. Newberg

A Neolithic development may have been crucial to naturalism… But were early humans naturalistic, or is “nature” a modern concept?

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Roots of SN, Part 4: Were Early Hunter-gatherers Naturalistic?

January 10, 2016March 13, 2014 by B. T. Newberg

In this part of his series, B.T. Newberg examines the possibility of naturalism among early hunter-gatherers…

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Roots of SN, Part 3: Evolution and the Way to Live

March 16, 2014February 4, 2014 by B. T. Newberg

Ancient thinkers derived values from their understanding of the facts. What values can we derive from the facts as we know them today?…

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Roots of SN, Part 2: Modern Cosmology

January 10, 2016January 6, 2014 by B. T. Newberg

B.T. Newberg continues this series by asking if modern cosmology can be our new creation story…

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Roots of Spiritual Naturalism, Part 1: Introduction

March 14, 2014December 2, 2013 by B. T. Newberg

The first in B. T. Newberg’s series exploring the question “Were there Spiritual Naturalists in the ancient world?”

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Ancient Philosophy Meets Darwin: Can Science Offer a Way of Life?

October 1, 2013 by B. T. Newberg

In the age of Darwin, what do we still have to learn from philosophers like Socrates or the Buddha?…

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Three Transcendents, part 4: Mind

July 5, 2013 by B. T. Newberg

In the final part of this series, B.T. Newberg describes how the mind can be a source of transcendence…

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