ABSTRACT
The concept of "nature" with which religious naturalists are typically preoccupied is formulated in a great variety of different ways, ranging from very broad and capacious conceptualizations to those that are significantly more narrow and limited. Pantheism seems like the most straightforward and common strategy for embracing naturalism while maintaining belief in God; on such a world view, God and nature are simply coterminous. "Invisibility" is often identified as a salient feature of those entities designated as supernatural. Yet scientists regularly posit the reality of theoretical entities that can be known only through their effects. Religious naturalism, whether it is articulated as some type of process theism or take the form of an explicit atheism, can be portrayed as a response to the traditional problem of theodicy against which classical theists have continuously banged their heads. Among the classical American pragmatists, John Dewey is rather easily labeled as a religious naturalist.
