Theology - what's it called when religion answers everyday needs (details)?

I would guess you are looking for the word “blessing.”

I call it a form of faith though some might call it prayer. I think it is also the point when religion crosses the line into lifestyle just a little bit.

Since atheism is ungodly I would guess godly might work, or blessed.

@ETpro No, that’s infusing something with holiness. No, there’s a word… Like, early man was all-concerned with just finding food and shelter for immediate needs. And then we stopped being hunter-gatherers, and prayers would shift to needing good crops and and protection in battle. Now our basic needs – food, shelter, medicine, etc – are met, so our needs from our gods change. The more stable and progressive a society is, the more their immediate needs are met, the less they want their gods to give them rain and heal a blister and the more they want answers to the more existential questions. And I need the term for classifying the earlier stages.

I must say the same as most have said here , It’s called a Blessing

@Pattijo A blessing is the name of the action, not a way to describe a religion that provides such blessings.

Devout, pious, righteous, virtuous, sacred, faithful

Are you talking about natural or civil theology? Or a teleological argument? Or are you talking about comfort or grace? Are you talking about types of prayer? Or are you speaking of Theurgy vs Theology? You’re not talking about theodicy or omnibenevolence? Immanence?

@everephebe Um… So I’m arguing that the medieval Christian Church was forced to be more “primitive” than it really wanted to because the laity was so concerned with healthy crops, healthy cattle, being fertile, easy childbirth, etc. The laity needed the talismans, the holy water, the amulets, the relics, etc more than the Church really cared for, to the point of being (imho) blatant magic and superstition, but the Church had to go along with it and be an accomplice to all this because they couldn’t win the support of the laity if they answered why we’re here on Earth or even why suffering in this world will lead to happiness in the next life if they didn’t provide people with a way to cure gout (etc). So then the church is sorta stuck in between being a more abstract, “evolved” faith and being a tangible, immediate religion.

Hope that answers your question – if it doesn’t, well, I need more energy drink in order to provide more info.

Intercession via Apotropaism?

Providence?

@papayalily Oh, I see. Then I think perhaps @Judi has nailed it with divine providence.

Ah yes divine providence, damn. Inculturation & Ecumenism may also be useful topics for your argument.

Deism is natural religion.

@Judi has it, Gods provision,

Sustenance is another
(Isaiah 46:4 Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.)

Primitive religion? Animism?

Catholics pray to saints for intercession – St. Jude for lost cause or hopelessness, St. Christopher for safe travel, St. Anthony for lost or stolen items.

Magic, or practical religion?