supranaturalistadj.n.

1827 Christian Remembrancer Nov. 679 I teach Rationalist doctrines; my next neighbour preaches Supra-naturalist opinions.

1847 J. Torrey tr. A. Neander Gen. Hist. Christian Relig. & Church I. 87 Either the supra-naturalist element would have been overpowered and crushed by the mystico-rationalist, or the latter of these by the former.

1949 Mod. Philol. 46 177/2 The young Goethe was averse not only to the supra-naturalist theology but also to the philosophical rationalism which tends to substitute a product of the intellect for the unacceptable supra-natural revelation.

2009 W. J. Wildman Sci. & Relig. Anthropol. ii. 31 Supranaturalist theologians can frame the personality of their determinate-entity God in such a way that it is separate from the created depth structures of nature.

1829 Foreign Rev. 3 265 His favourite study was scripture history and criticism, but in the latter years of his life he attached himself to the sect of the supra-naturalists.

1842 W. T. Brande Dict. Sci., Lit. & Art 1196/1 Supranaturalists, a name given of late years to the middle party among the divines of Germany, to distinguish them from the Rationalists,..and from the Evangelical party.

1846 ‘G. Eliot’ tr. D. F. Strauss Life Jesus I. Introd. §11. 46 Those theologians..who think to unite both parties by this middle course—a vain endeavour which the rigid supranaturalist pronounces heretical, and the rationalist derides.

1906 Homiletic Rev. Feb. 130/1 The earlier rationalists and supranaturalists were interested in religion chiefly as a system of truths taught and believed.

2009 W. J. Wildman Sci. & Relig. Anthropol. ii. 32 But where fundamentalists stubbornly go to war over it, many other supranaturalists loyally continue to narrate their world in terms of supernatural souls and moral laws.