Sentences with phrase «natural theology»

On the formal question, however, I agree with the rejection of natural theology as defined above.

I suggest that the term «Christian natural theology» might be used.

In the latter case he must acknowledge the role of something like natural theology in his work.

As long as faith and autonomous speculative reason are seen as arriving at incompatible conclusions, there can be no such thing as natural theology.

Hence, a clear distinction should be kept between natural theology and revealed theology.

With natural theology eliminated and the study of the human divorced from the natural sciences, theology received a quite new understanding of its role and function.

Traditional natural theology had considered adaptation to be a sign of divine design, either direct or indirect.

It is largely in this sense that Protestant theologians have rejected natural theology.

The hostility toward natural theology has led to a widespread refusal to take this question with full seriousness.

Since this is self - evident, we may assume that the practitioners of natural theology do not claim universal acceptance for their views.

In the light of my definition of theology, we can now consider what natural theology may be.

Hence, if natural theology is necessary, the theologian has two choices.

Of course, it is not necessary for each individual to study natural theology before he is prepared to accept revelation.

But we must recognize that natural theology receives a basis on which to operate only as a gift from revelation.

Some definitions of natural theology put it altogether outside the scope of theology as I have defined it.

If the data of philosophical reason are natural, that is, if they are given for human experience independently of historical conditions, then natural theology as commonly understood becomes a major possibility.

These lines are reminiscent of a rather quaint natural theology.

To focus on that interface, then, is a new form of empirical natural theology.

Natural theology usually places a heavy emphasis on reason and philosophy.

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

One might well simply select the relevant doctrines in his thought and treat them as the appropriate natural theology.

A Christian natural theology must not be a hybrid of philosophy and Christian convictions.

Their purpose was to provide insights to religion based on reason, i.e., natural theology in contrast to revealed theology.

Whitehead returns to the question of natural theology for his cosmology and discovers the temporal aspect of God's nature: part V.

As developed through the writings of Charles Hartshorne, Whitehead's process conception of God has had an important influence on natural theology as taught in the seminaries.

I still remember vividly how a friend of mine during a conference mentioned his recent discovery of two books which seemed to be quite inspiring to him: Schubert M. Ogden's The Reality of God (RG) and John B. Cobb's A Christian Natural Theology Based on the Thought of Alfred North Whitehead (CNT).

God of Abraham By L. E. Goodman Oxford University Press, 384 pages, $ 49.95 A sustained argument for natural theology by a first - rate philosopher who also knows the Jewish tradition.

From the Christians penchant for cutting down sacred Druidic groves to the development of «modern science from natural theology,» Christianity, White argues, laid the foundations of Western «arrogance towards nature» and «limitless rule of creation.»

I have repeatedly affirmed that there appeared to be serious tensions between the Biblical understanding of God and that which emerges in Thomist natural theology.

Since no doctrine of theological importance can claim the sanction of universal, neutral, objective, impartial reason, what is called natural theology can only be the expression of one faith or another.

On the same terms, it is easy to see why Karl Barth and others revolted against natural theology.

You're coming from the scientific philosophy of mechanistic determinism that states that divine action is either subjective (the «God did it» explanation of deistic natural theology) or objective (interventionist God of the conservative theologies).

Knox seems to acknowledge that some of ourproblems arise from our «friends», when he writes: «There will be fresh attempts to dissociate natural theology altogether from our experience of the natural world around us, to concentrate more and more on precarious arguments derived from the exigencies and the instincts of human nature itself.»

There will be fresh attempts to dissociate natural theology altogether from our experience of the natural world around us, to concentrate more and more on precarious arguments derived from the exigencies and the instincts of human nature itself.

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.

But if in fact in the common vision of reality apart from revelation this element has been subordinate to other elements or entirely lacking, then we must acknowledge that revelation creates the data on the basis of which natural theology reasons.

Although he tends at times to obscure the dependence of natural theology upon revelation, he is not unaware of it, and his arguments do not depend on the occasional oversight.

Although these «new essays in philosophical theology» displayed a certain refinement of analytical tools, the synthesis they were used to build (or to destroy) was by and large the same old natural theology that Barth had repudiated.

That is not to say that the biblical writers had a purely natural theology, but as you read through the scriptures, you will find that the biblical writers were continually making inference from nature to nature's God.

It would be confusing to include under the heading of natural theology all the technical aspects of philosophy, but, on the other hand, no sharp line can be drawn, and the coherence of the whole is of decisive importance for selection.

The choice of Whitehead as the philosopher on whom to base a Christian natural theology requires only brief comment.

Critics of natural theology argue that it always tyrannizes over the revealed theologies of those who use it.