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supernaturalism

[ US /ˌsupɝˈnætʃɝəˌɫɪzəm/ ]
NOUN
  1. the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces
  2. a belief in forces beyond ordinary human understanding

How To Use supernaturalism In A Sentence

  • We begin with the issue of supernaturalism in religion and its supposedly superstitious character.
  • The whole of its supernaturalism is borrowed bodily from Persia, which had "imparadised Earth by making it the abode of angels. Arabian nights. English
  • I have noted that biblical religion opposed the supernaturalism of the ancient pagan.
  • In such a view, the religious framework of Christianity was aligned with scientific naturalism, and non-Christian supernaturalism was aligned with superstition.
  • The trend during the past 10 years or so has shown that people (not only children) are inclined to watch films/serials portraying or reflecting supernaturalism.
  • Scientific naturalism has thus dislodged theological supernaturalism as the cosmological outlook of the contemporary intellectual world.
  • The supernaturalism of these railways can also shift from the religiose to the profane – witness the alarming Paul Delvaux mural of a girl in a white dress among rearing black engines in the station brasserie at Bruges. Jilted City by Patrick McGuinness
  • Foundational to this claim is that religion needs to be understood in terms of naturalistic theism, or panentheism, rather than supernaturalism.
  • I would go so far, contra Joshi (and contra Farnsworth Wright, who rejected "The Shunned House" when Lovecraft submitted it to Weird Tales) as to say that the slow, labored buildup of historical and spectral details and the equally dense justification that the modern, scientific Whipple narrator gives for the continuing horrors are both structurally necessary for the narrative (especially the pacing) to work correctly and thematically necessary for the transmission of the exact weird sensation -- of paranormality, not supernaturalism -- that Lovecraft intends. Kenneth Hite's Journal
  • It is necessary to understand that the concept of religion that developed in the medieval period combines supernaturalism and science to formulate statements about the world and humankind.
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