Sentences with phrase «contemporary natural theology»

Perhaps McGrath's greatest contribution to the debate is to demonstrate how well St. Augustine's theology of creation provides a foundation for contemporary natural theology.

This argument is so important for the critical evaluation of contemporary natural theologies that it must be elaborated briefly.

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Moreover, the Northern European Jewish thinkers who advocated this view (unlike their contemporary counterparts in Spain) were in no wise adherents of Aristotelian philosophy and its natural theology, which argued that God's existence could be demonstrated outside of historical revelation.

It is this single fundamental argument rather than the explanations of the five arguments in its terms that is important to us in understanding contemporary Thomist natural theology.

His legacy forms the groundwork for many contemporary disciplines including psychology, history, political science, natural science and epistemology, as well as all of Roman Catholic theology.

In seeking to develop a theology of nature, process theologians are supportive of endeavors to appropriate other images from the tradition, such as St. Francis» compassionate love for the poor and treatment of animals as sisters and brothers, the Orthodox view of the church as inclusive of all of creation, and the use of the elements of bread and wine in the Eucharist, products of the interworkings between God, the non-human natural world, and human labor, that speak, to contemporary needs.

This distinction between the supernatural and natural orders has become incredibly blurred in contemporary theology.

This statement is at total odds with natural law theology... The Thomistic synthesis, which Hittinger clearly represents when he connects natural law to a doctrine of God, unearths the far - reaching background behind the rise of contemporary atheism in dialectical theology's placing these two revelations in opposition.

If process theology is truly a rebirth in a contemporary form of an ancient natural religion or natural theology, then we should expect that process theology is unable to envision a truly new creation or new humanity.

In times past, various ecumenical seminars have been held, growing mostly out of Kung's ecumenical interests — his seminar with Jürgen Moltmann on «Contemporary Christology,» one with Heiko Oberman on «The Concept of Justification in Luther and the Council of Trent,» and another with Eberhard Jungel on «Natural Theology in Barth's Church Dogmatics.»

The lack of the authenticating thread for genuine natural law - the nonnegotiable insistence that there are some universally valid precepts derivable by nature and unable not to be known (however much we are tempted to overlook them or pretend we do not know them)» is most clearly evident in the sections of each chapter where Porter sketches what contemporary moral theology can discover from her medieval labors.

In quite different ways, roughly comparable to those indicated in the two preceding paragraphs, Bertocci and Wieman offer contemporary formulations of this kind of modern natural theology.

Even here, no one contemporary has developed philosophy of religion as a natural theology in the context of a total theology, but the materials for the task are readily at hand.

Special difficulties have attached to the selections of contemporary theologians who employ natural theology.