Concept
Henry Nelson Wieman
Overview
Henry Nelson Wieman (1884–1975) was an American philosopher and theologian. He became the most famous proponent of theocentric naturalism and the empirical method in American theology and catalyzed the emergence of religious naturalism in the latter part of the 20th century. He has two grandsons who are prominent physicists, Carl Wieman and Howard Wieman, and his son-in-law Huston Smith was a prominent scholar in religious studies.
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Place in the tradition
Part of Religious naturalism.