Natural Supernaturalism

[1] Rodger L. Tarr writes that "According to natural supernaturalism, miracles are an extension of truth, not a corruption of it; mysteries are dimensions of science, not a repudiation of it; and wonder is the foundation of logic, not its antagonist.

a recognition at bottom, as the Hegelian philosophy teaches, and the life of Christ certifies, of the finiting of the infinite in the transitory forms of space and time.

[4]His journal entry for 31 March 1833 reiterated his conviction in the importance of this idea:Neither fear thou that this thy great Message (of the Natural being the Supernatural) will wholly perish unuttered.

Just as the Copernican system superseded the Ptolemaic, Natural Supernaturalism represents "a 'revolution' [in 'our spiritual world'] such as never was before, or at least since letters and recorded history existed among us never was.

[8] The term has been used in a literary context (notably by M. H. Abrams)[9] to discuss the work of Margaret Oliphant, Elizabeth Gaskell, the Brontë family,[10][11] E. M. Forster,[12] Eric Pankey[13] and William Shakespeare.