Harmonizing the Enlightenment and Theology in Theological Materialism

When God is a name, a symbol, a non-material entity it is easier to deny Enlightenment concerns with the natural material world. But then the Enlightenment creates its own names, symbols and non-material entities as Gods, such as reason and science.

Traditional theology and the Enlightenment can be brought together when it is understood that the material world evolves to outward Godhood first seen inwardly as the Father Within in the great religions, but mainly rejected by the more naturalistic Enlightenment. Idealism and faith both apply in the goal of Godhood, and reason and science can be used in the divine goal of evolving to Godhood in the cosmos. This is the basis of theological materialism, which can end the wars between religion and science.