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Two criticisms of natural theology

open access: yesZagadnienia Filozoficzne w Nauce, 2014
The article aims at considering two general criticisms often formulated against the natural theology. First criticism is based on the thesis that the conclusions of the natural theology are not adequate with the religious beliefs of non-philosophers.
Błażej Gębura
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The Excellency of Theology: A Critique of Robert K. Merton\'s \"Puritan Thesis,\" with Reference to the Works of Robert Boyle [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Robert K. Merton's "Puritan Thesis" asserts a direct correlation between Puritan theological beliefs and participation in natural philosophy (what today would be known as science).
Patton, Elizabeth
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Towards a new natural theology based on horizontal transcendence

open access: yesHTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2009
This article explores a context for designing a new natural theology. The starting point is that traditional developments in this regard, from Augustine to Aquinas, Paley, Boyle and Barth, do not get us much further.
Cornel W. du Toit
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DISCIPLINING RELATIVISM AND TRUTH

open access: yesZygon, 1989
. Imre Lakatos's philosophy of science can provide helpful leads for theological methodology, but only when mediated by the disciplines that lie between the natural sciences and theology.
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The Advancement of New Theology Using New Science: The Three Key Concepts of Thomas Torrance [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The author begins with a selective outline of historical understandings of the concepts of space and time, in order to demonstrate their import for and engagement with theology.
Murtha-Smith, Susan
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What Game Is Being Played? The Need for Clarity about the Relationships Between Scientific and Theological Understanding

open access: yesZygon, 2000
This paper investigates the relationship between theology and the natural sciences by considering four realist and five nonrealist interpretations of theological understanding.
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The Debate Concerning Creation in Relation to Ecology

open access: yesStudia Ecologiae et Bioethicae, 2006
The subject of creation was neglected in theological debate for a long time. Only about 35 years ago, when the so-called ecological crisis manifested itself, creation began to appear in the center of theological interest.
Sławomir Śledziewski
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