If it be an avowed antagonist to Christianity, it is not less hostile to Natural Theology and to Ethical Science.
The subject of these lectures is a branch of natural theology.
By natural theology I understand that reasoned knowledge of a God or gods which man may be supposed, whether rightly or wrongly, capable of attaining to by the exercise of his natural faculties alone.
He was for long popularly known by his treatise, The Wisdom of God manifested in the works of the Creation (1691), a precursor of Paley's Natural Theology.
The Founder of Natural Theology--Raimund of Sabunde.
Here too we may place the talented father of natural theology, Raimund of Sabunde, and the brilliant Nicholas of Cusa, in whom all the nobler aspirations of mediæval ecclesiastical science were concentrated.
Zöckler= of Giessen and Greifswald has made important contributions to church history, exegesis, and dogmatics, and especially to the theory and history of natural theology.
These are to be sure but its general tendencies, with many exceptions—yet, why such a line of argument should be deemed insufficient in moral philosophy, and be admitted as cogent in natural theology, it is difficult to conceive.
There is a passage in his letter to the Romans which is justly entitled to stand at the head of all discourses on "natural theology," Rom.
This "philosophy of feeling," or of faith generated by feeling, has an interest and a significance which has not been adequately recognized by writers on natural theology.
Caliban upon Setebos; or Natural Theology in the Island.
For it must be taken into consideration that the objections of the Manichaeans are hardly less contrary to natural theology than to revealed theology.
These are new openings and, as it were, rays of the dawn which promises us a greater light: I mean in philosophical subjects or those of natural theology.
Even in the nominalistic epoch we have Raymond of Sabunde's Natural Theology (according to the article in Herzog-Hauck, not the title of the oldest Paris MS.
The book is not what moderns (schooled unconsciously in post-Reformation developments of Thomist ideas) expect under the name of natural theology.
On the other hand, Christians and Jews are pretty well agreed on natural theology; so the New Testament tends to take its theism for granted.
After all, the inevitable drawback to Natural Theology lies in the fact that, in order to be held a valid science, it must necessarily become a complex one.
Natural Theology, considered as a science, had been at that time pronounced extinct and impossible by very eminent authorities.
The weight of confirmation thus given to my own previous results, is enhanced by the fact that most of the authors cited, pursued different objects from mine, and wrote without any bias favourable to Natural Theology.
It would indeed be strange and sad, should the genuine leaders of thought in any among the Natural Sciences be reckoned real adversaries of Natural Theology.
Its origin is to be sought in the attempts made to prove that the principles of natural theology were to be found in all religions.
The treatises on the fertilisation of orchids and on insectivorous plants require only to have their legitimate conclusions deduced and applied in order to be transformed into treatises of natural theology.
But there were some who undertook to maintain that there was no such thing as natural theology; that reason of itself can teach us absolutely nothing about God or our duties towards Him.
I do not pretend to teach but only to suggest; to point out certain problems of Natural Theology, the further solution of which ought, I think, to be soon attempted.
But that the religious temper of England for the last two or three generations has been unfavourable to a sound and scientific development of natural theology, there can be no doubt.
I wish to speak, remember, not on natural religion, but on natural theology.
Imagine a mind of this skeptical character, in all honesty and under its best reason, after finding itself obliged to reject the evidence of revelation, to commence a search after the Creator, in the light of natural theology.
The History of the Development of Dogma as the Doctrine of the God-man on the basis of Natural Theology--continued.
Presuppositions of Doctrine of Redemption or Natural Theology.
The History of the Development of Dogma as the Doctrine of the God-man on the basis of Natural Theology.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "natural theology" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
