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2013
It is not a universally accepted view, but neither is it a shocking or novel one, that Hobbes was a critic of religion. So far from being novel, this was the view of many of Hobbes’s contemporaries, some of whom regarded him not just as a critic of religion but as a bitter enemy of it.
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It is not a universally accepted view, but neither is it a shocking or novel one, that Hobbes was a critic of religion. So far from being novel, this was the view of many of Hobbes’s contemporaries, some of whom regarded him not just as a critic of religion but as a bitter enemy of it.
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The Problem of Natural Theology
Religious Studies, 1972It is a curious fact that the much maligned ontological argument to prove the existence of God has in recent times enjoyed a revival of interest to which even Karl Barth, the arch-enemy of natural theology has contributed; but since the revival of interest has appared in a wide diversity of intellectual contexts, both philosophical and theological, the
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Hypothesis and Natural Theology [PDF]
We now come to the General Scholium at the end of Book III. Newton begins by criticizing the “hypothesis of vortices.” This is the theory by which Descartes and his followers attempted to explain the orbits of the planets by likening them to submerged masses being swept around the sun by the complex flow of ethereal whirlpools filling the spaces ...
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Scottish Journal of Theology, 1964
The phrase ‘a theology of nature’ is an abbreviation for ‘a theological account of natural happenings’—happenings which are properly investigated in the first instance by appropriate ‘natural sciences’. A Christian theology of nature seeks to provide a systematic appreciation of the physical universe, its items and occurrences, from a Christian ...
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The phrase ‘a theology of nature’ is an abbreviation for ‘a theological account of natural happenings’—happenings which are properly investigated in the first instance by appropriate ‘natural sciences’. A Christian theology of nature seeks to provide a systematic appreciation of the physical universe, its items and occurrences, from a Christian ...
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Natural Theology and the Qur'an
Journal of Qur'anic Studies, 2013While the Qur'an's doctrine of naskh means that the particulars of a revealed text were significant, the Qur'an's discussion of humans’ fiṭra and ḥunafāʾ (s. ḥanīf), along with its evocation of the wonders of creation as evidence of God's existence and power, meant that at least some of the Qur'an's message might not have to depend on a specific ...
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Natural Philosophy and Theology
1983CARDANO ATTEMPTS to conceive of the world as a unified whole. In accordance with the idea of unity of the terrestrial and the celestial, of the physical and the spiritual world he believes in a single vital principle: the “World-soul.” At the same time he is greatly impressed by the profusion of phenomena that he perceives in the world and that he ...
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African Public Theology? A conceptual engagement to keep the conversation alive
In Die Skriflig, 2022Dion A Forster
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Listening for the Cries of the Earth: Practical Theology in the Anthropocene
International Journal of Practical Theology, 2020Pamela R Mccarroll
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