Status Updates From Naturalism and Religion: A ...

"whether there is conflict or independence between religion and science depends entirely upon the claims made by given religions; and [...] any ‘dialogue’ or ‘integration’ can only be a matter of acceptance of the deliverances of science by given religions"

The author's critic against plantiga, was that naturalism does not incur further philosophical and ontological prepositions compared to Christianity, so it might be better. No defense provided against that evolutionary theory, alone, can not be a defeater against Christianity.

"Johnston claims that: 'Religion is a complex and open-ended collection of cultic practices from which practitioners derive a deepened capacity to deal with the manifest large-scale structural defects in human life' "

"the Highest One is 'the outpouring of Existence itself by way of its examplification in ordinary existence for the sake of self-disclosure of Existence itself' "

C.2 concerns with religion big picture and definition, and assesing wether philosophy and natrualism are religion.

Core idea - introduction:
"... naturalism is the view that:a) science is our tochstone for identifying the denizens of casual reality;and b) there are none but natural casual entities with none but natural casual powers".

Until 4.Big pictures
Explained distiction between natural & non-natural. I think, writer is assuming the current science as the distinction. Later some explanations why no non-natural entity and power could be was given.