Argues against a Christian philosophical orientation, faith-based fideistic accounts, and the more traditional varieties of natural theology, and develops a naturalistic philosophical account that avoids foundationalism without retreating from atheism. Contains sections on the foundations of a nonscientific historicized naturalism, social philosophy within the limits of reflective equilibrium alone, critical social theory and the fixation of belief, and toward a nonscientistic atheism. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.