ABSTRACT
Acceptance of themes from religious naturalism seems common within Unitarian-Universalism and religious humanism. Still, when one surveys the broad scope of religious thought and practice, religious naturalism plays a tiny role. Immanuel Kant is an earlier thinker whose thought significantly helped pave the way for religious naturalism. Perhaps he is the first influential philosopher to provide a profound vision affirming the scientific understanding of early modernism while also incorporating moral and religious insights. Finally, in considering allies, three authors articulate views that fit well within the scope of religious naturalism, although they have not generally been included in discussions of religious naturalists. There is a human tendency to seek security beyond the chaos of history by relating to that which is seen as transcendent and thereby reliable. The future of any program of thought and action is impossible to predict with any accuracy.
