natural theology
Noun
Meaning
a theology that holds that knowledge of God can be acquired by human reason without the aid of divine revelation
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Advocating for natural theology, he wrote: "In the works of the Creator ever open to our examination, we possess a firm basis on which to raise the superstructure of an enlightened creed.
The book served as a template for many subsequent natural theologies during the 19th century. citation Professor of chemistry and natural history, Edward Hitchcock also studied and wrote on natural theology.
There is plenty of philosophical literature on faith (especially fideism ) and other subjects generally considered to be outside the realm of natural theology.
It was the same as the natural theology that was so prevalent in all English theology in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Natural theology The attempt to provide proofs or arguments for the existence of God is one aspect of what is known as natural theology or the natural theistic project.
Phillips rejects "natural theology" and its evidentialist approach as confused, in favor of a grammatical approach which investigates the meaning of belief in God.