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Natural Theology versus Theology of Nature
Theology and Science, 2005“My only beef with believers is when they claim they can use science and reason to prove God's existence,” writes skeptic Michael Shermer in How We Believe: The Search for God in an Age of Science ...
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A Natural History of Natural Theology
2014An examination of the cognitive foundations of intuitions about the existence and attributes of God. Questions about the existence and attributes of God form the subject matter of natural theology, which seeks to gain knowledge of the divine by relying on reason and experience of the world.
Helen De Cruz, Johan De Smedt
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The natural theology of Victorian industry
Endeavour, 2015As clergymen in Britain celebrated the Great Exhibition in the summer of 1851 and drew appropriate moral lessons, there was widespread agreement that the triumphs of industry on display represented the fulfilment of God's will. The basic assumption was that overcoming God's curse on Adam had been possible only through sustained hard work - industry in ...
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Thomas Aquinas vis-à-vis Natural Theology, Theology of Nature, and Religious Naturalism
Theology and Science, 2017ABSTRACTThis essay employs the thought of Thomas Aquinas to explore the differences between natural theology, a theology of nature, and religious naturalism. The scriptural foundation of Aquinas’s theology and the similarities he finds between the methods of theology and natural science provide a framework for understanding the ways in which a theology
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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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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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1991
Although Faraday’s early biographers emphasised his empiricism, historians of science have more recently sought to understand Faraday in terms of his theoretical commitments and have argued that his success resulted from his rich and insightful use of theoretical constructs such as the lines of force which he conceived permeating space.
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Although Faraday’s early biographers emphasised his empiricism, historians of science have more recently sought to understand Faraday in terms of his theoretical commitments and have argued that his success resulted from his rich and insightful use of theoretical constructs such as the lines of force which he conceived permeating space.
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Natural Theology and the Future of Biblical Theology
1994Abstract Biblical theology has to take account of the meanings that applied within the biblical culture. The problems are illustrated from examples like the destruction of the Canaanites and the sacrifice of children.
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A Perennial Theology of Nature
Proceedings of the American Catholic Philosophical Association, 2019However much scientific paradigms shift, the shifts are not so arbitrary that we would relinquish without need the simpler, more economic and elegant theories for more complicated ones. This is not just a matter of convenience but implies an objective fact about the universe, namely a reliable perfection that can only be assumed on the basis of the ...
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