NOUN
- a theology that holds that knowledge of God can be acquired by human reason without the aid of divine revelation
How To Use natural theology In A Sentence
- Natural theology settled philosophical foundation of modern science in the aspects as ontology, epistemology, methodology. Actually it is "prior science" of modern science.
- In the front matter of Moby-Dick, William Paley's Natural Theology is quoted: "The aorta of a whale is larger in the bore than the main pipe of the water-works at London Bridge, and the water roaring in its passage through that pipe is inferior in impetus and velocity to the blood gushing from the whale's heart. Stefan Beck: Beaches: Bergman's The Seventh Seal & the Wellfleet Oyster Festival
- They were no more testable than the claims of Paley and the other advocates of natural theology.
- Before 1859 it would have seemed natural to agree with the Reverend William Paley, in "Natural Theology, " that the creation of life was God's greatest work.
- In natural theology, we can only explain "by way of negation and remotion" what that means. The Robinson-Blosser Debate on Divine Simplicity
- Here liberal theism and varieties of natural theology seemed particularly dangerous.
- In this paper, we try to find the modem significance of natural theology out in the classical context, which focus on Cicero and Augustine.
- In Britain, William Paley's Natural Theology saw adaptation as evidence of beneficial "design" by the Creator acting through natural laws.
- 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 methods of apologetics outlined above - natural theology and history - are primarily scientific.
