Citations:metanatural

English citations of metanatural

• 1967, William Horosz, Religion in Philosophical and Cultural Perspective (Van Nostrand):

  Old cultures which spawned this innovation were oriented to views which featured nature and humanity. The age into which we are now rapidly moving will likely feature a metanatural world, and the old human values will be transformed ...

• 1975, Robert K. Morris, Paradoxes of Order: Some Perspectives on the Fiction of V. S. Naipaul (University of Missouri Press):

  Backtracking a bit, one notes a metaphysical (or metanatural) movement throughout: from inanimate (boats) to animal (dogs) to human (the people in the streets) to suprahuman (all the birds).

• 1987, J. Baird Callicott, Companion to A sand county almanac: interpretive & critical essays (University of Wisconsin Press):

  We are more than natural beings; we are metanatural — not to say, "supernatural" — beings. But then our moral community is limited to only those beings who share our transcendence of nature, i.e., to human beings ...

• 1991, Ahron Soloveichik, Logic of the Heart, Logic of the Mind:

  A ketz nistar means that it is possible that the whole redemption will be realized not in accordance with natural processes, not within the framework of history, but on a metanatural level. The Messiah will come not within the framework of history ...

• 1997, Michael Lomatuway'ma, Ekkehart Malotki, The Bedbugs' Night Dance and Other Hopi Tales of Sexual Encounter (→ISBN):

  We must therefore look for comparisons not among the overtly divine myths of classical antiquity but among those traditions that feature human beings in a world affected by magical or metanatural forces.

• 2006, Polger, Natural Minds (→ISBN), page 247:

  The idea is that metanaturalism is trivial or nearly trivial, but that it is a substantial and nontrivial claim that current naturalistic theorizing (i.e., in physics and biology, and by extension current naturalism in philosophy of mind) are metanatural.

• 2012, Walter Mosley, The Gift of Fire and On the Head of a Pin: Two Short Novels from Crosstown to Oblivion (→ISBN):

  He was inextricably intertwined with the nature of that metanatural being. But Prometheus drew his strength from Logos and Logos from Ma'at.

• 2012, Samuel A. Nigro, Everybody for Everybody (→ISBN), page 174:

  Now that is what I call metanatural selection consistent with the metastability of elementary particles of physics.

• 2013, Louise Westling, The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Environment (→ISBN), page 31:

  Landscape features such as overgrown Neolithic mounds (in Irish síde, in Welsh gorseddau), rivers, wells, countryside, forest, islands, or the sea itself, prove portals into this metanatural dimension.

• 2013, Ismail Raji Al-Faruqi, The Essence of Islamic Civilization (→ISBN), page 24:

  By aesthetic experience is meant the experience through the senses, of an a priori, metanatural essence that acts as the normative principle of the object beheld. It is what the object ought to be.