natural theology

How To Use natural theology In A Sentence

• Finally, he examines the decreasing influence of strict Reformed theology due to rising scholasticism, sectarianism and natural theology based on enlightened philosophy.
• But a small, growing school of Catholic intellectuals argue that natural theology actually supports the morality of homosexual unions.
• Is not the observation, Omnia mutantur, nil interit, a contemplation in philosophy thus, that the quantum of nature is eternal? in natural theology thus, that it requireth the same omnipotency to make somewhat nothing, which at the first made nothing somewhat? according to the Scripture, Didici quod omnia opera, quoe fecit Deus, perseverent in perpetuum; non possumus eis quicquam addere nec auferre. The Advancement of Learning
• The person who believes in a transcendental theology alone, is termed a deist; he who acknowledges the possibility of a natural theology also, a theist. The Critique of Pure Reason
• Furthermore, the Reformed objection to natural theology, unformed and inchoate as it is, may best be seen as a rejection of classical foundationalism.
• From the late 1920s, Brunner had become increasingly interested in the question of natural theology.
• Not only does it make us reconsider the task of natural theology, it influences such topics as creation, eschatology and the problem of evil.
• Even those discussions which, at a first view, might seem to belong rather to natural theology, were deliberately assigned to their place after long experience in teaching, as pertaining to the limits where the two fields osculate if they do not cut, and with a clear pre-eminence given to the ethical side of the truths common to both. Outlines of Moral Science.
• The rational spirit of modern science stem from ancient Greek rational which was carried on by natural theology.
• There is no doubt that Darwin's deep immersion in natural theology at Cambridge did him a great service.