GLOSSARY OF TERMS

• naturalism - Philosophy:  The doctrine which expands conceptions drawn from the natural sciences into a world view, denying that anything in reality has a supernatural or more than a natural significance; the doctrine that cause and effect laws, such as those of physics and chemistry, are adequate to account for all phenomena, and that teleological conceptions of nature are invalid; loosely, materialism and positivism. 
  Theology: The doctrine that religious truth is derived from nature and not from miraculous or supernatural revelation;  the denial of the miraculous and supernatural in religion.

• tautology - Repetition of the same words or use of synonymous words in close succession; repetition of a statement, of acts, experiences etc. especially when superfluous;  circular reasoning.