Talk:spiritual naturalism

Naturalistic Spirituality and Spiritual Naturalism are interchangeable terms for the same philosophical perspective. However Spiritual Naturalism is the term most commonly used. Book searches for the two find no usage for Naturalistic Spirituality before 1956(The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index - Catholic Library Association, 1956, page 357) whereas Spiritual Naturalism may have first been proposed by Joris-Karl Huysmans in 1895 in his book En Route - “Huysmans was the first to defect to 'Spiritual Naturalism' and eventually to a form of mysticism; he was followed by Maupassant:” ( Lilian R. Furst, Peter N. Skrine - Literary Criticism, 1978, page 31) and “In 'En Route' Huysmans started upon the creation of what he called ‘Spiritual Naturalism,’ that is, realism applied to the story of a soul. ...” (The Yale Review - Yale University, Blackwell, 1915, page288).Jlrobertson 16:11, 14 January 2009 (UTC)