ABSTRACT
The naturalist dimension of the author's position is pretty orthodox from the point of view of contemporary Anglo-American philosophy, for naturalism is the dominant programmatic approach, and it is made clear that this is what people ought to be. Naturalism is a form of in this respect: the natural world is the only world there is, and there is nothing beyond it– no God, no Platonic form of Goodness, no heaven, above people only sky. The naturalist denies that there is anything beyond nature, and it is a common enough refrain amongst naturalists that this world is the only world there is. The idea of God as love has been developed more recently by Paul Fiddes. Fiddes argues that it offers a real alternative to the offending dualistic picture, for it allows people to say that God's being is irreducibly relational, and that people partake in this reality when people stand in loving relations to others.
