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Argument from Design in Richard Baxter's Natural Theology [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2017
The article deals with the teleological argument, or argument from design, as expounded by a famous English Protestant theologian Richard Baxter, one of the leading 17-th century English Puritans, in his work “The Reasons of the Christian Religion ...
Igor Koshelev
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All theology is natural theology: The hermeneutic necessity of natural theology? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
This article first offers a brief overview of the history of what is understood under "natural theology". The contrast between the Barthian critique against natural theology and the dangers of repudiating natural theology as stressed within the context ...
Conradie, Ernst
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A Reformed Natural Theology? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper aims to counter the recent opinion that there is a peculiar epistemology in the reformed Church which made it negative to natural theology.
Rehnman, Sebastian
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Escaping from the ghetto

open access: yesVerbum et Ecclesia, 2012
Revealed theology claims that religious belief derives from divine revelation and can only be justified in the light of such revelation. This entails a retreat into an intellectual ghetto: Only believers can participate in this kind of theology ...
Vincent Br�mmer
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Astrotheology’s contribution to public theology: From the extraterrestrial intelligence myth to astroethics

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2021
Public theology is conceived in the church, reflected on critically in the academy and addressed to the world for the sake of the world. The development of a theology of nature is included in the public theologian’s list of tasks of nature that is ...
Ted Peters
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Review and Critique of the Translation of the Book The Relevance of Natural Science to Theology [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش‌نامۀ انتقادی متون و برنامه‌های علوم انسانی, 2020
Numerous books have been written or translated on the “relationship between science and religion” or “the relationship between science and theology.” One of these books is “The Relevance of Natural Science to Theology” by William H. Austin.
Ali Reza Farsi Nezhad
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Can we locate our origin in the future? Archonic versus epigenetic creation accounts

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2022
Myths of origin in archaic culture – including the Hebrew Scriptures – locate reality at the point of origin. The Greek term, αρχη, means both origin and governance. How something originates governs its definition; it was assumed by our ancestors.
Ted Peters
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From ends to causes (and back again) by metaphor: the paradox of natural selection [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Natural selection is one of the most famous metaphors in the history of science. Charles Darwin used the metaphor and the underlying analogy to frame his ideas about evolution and its main driving mechanism into a full-fledged theory.
Blancke, Stefaan   +4 more
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SKETCH FOR A FORMAL NATURAL THEOLOGY: EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS OF GOD

open access: yesManuscrito, 2021
In this paper, I present a proposal for a Formal Natural Theology. The approach employed for this task is through a first-order theory, in which fundamental concepts such as divine, necessary, and supreme beings, are formally introduced, which allow ...
FÁBIO M. BERTATO
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THE SACRED IN THE EVERY-DAY WORLD: DISCOVERING THE POSSIBILITIES OF NATURAL THEOLOGY [PDF]

open access: yesВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия, 2011
The present article attempts to defi ne the parameters of competency of natural theology and the ways this theological information may be applied.
P. MIKHAYLOV
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