The Failure of Natural Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Failure of Natural Theology write by Jeffrey D Johnson. This book was released on 2021-09-15. The Failure of Natural Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Aristotle's cosmological argument is the foundation of Aquinas's doctrine of God. For Thomas, the cosmological argument not only speaks of God's existence but also of God's nature. By learning that the unmoved mover is behind all moving objects, we learn something true about the essence of God-principally, that God is immobile. But therein lies the problem for Thomas. The Catholic Church had already condemned Aristotle's unmoved mover because, according to Aristotle, the unmoved mover is unable to be the moving cause (i.e., Creator) and governor of the universe-or else he would cease to be immobile. By seeking to baptize Aristotle into the Catholic Church, however, Thomas gave his life to seeking to explain how God can be both immobile and the moving cause of the universe. Thomas even looked to the pantheistic philosophy of Pseudo-Dionysius for help. But even with Dionysius's aid, Thomas failed to reconcile the god of Aristotle with the Trinitarian God of the Bible. If Thomas would have rejected the natural theology of Aristotle by placing the doctrine of the Trinity, which is known only by divine revelation, at the foundation of his knowledge of God, he would have rid himself of the irresolvable tension that permeates his philosophical theology. Thomas could have realized that the Trinity alone allows for God to be the only self-moving being-because the Trinity is the only being not moved by anything outside himself but freely capable of creating and controlling contingent things in motion.
In Defense of Natural Theology
In Defense of Natural Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook In Defense of Natural Theology write by James F. Sennett. This book was released on 2005-10-04. In Defense of Natural Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. James F. Sennett and Douglas Groothuis have assembled a distinguished array of scholars to examine the Humean legacy with care and make the case for a more robust, if chastened, natural theology after Hume.
Natural Theology; Or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature
Natural Theology; Or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural Theology; Or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature write by William Paley. This book was released on 1822. Natural Theology; Or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Natural Theology
Natural Theology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Natural Theology write by Geerhardus Vos. This book was released on 2022-03-11. Natural Theology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Biblical and natural theology may not appear to mix, but the two actually do belong together. Vos’s reputation as the father of contemporary biblical theology is not negated by his earlier teaching of natural theology, appearing here for the first time in English. Gathered from source material found in the Heritage Hall archives at Calvin Seminary and University, these are the earliest notes of Vos’s lectures on natural theology. They demonstrate his understanding of Reformed orthodox approaches as well as extensive knowledge of contemporary developments in the subject. The present volume could be regarded as, and may have formed, a partial introduction to Reformed Dogmatics since it lacks a prolegomenon and because Natural Theology discusses religion and the proofs for the existence of God.
Ramified Natural Theology in Science and Religion
Ramified Natural Theology in Science and Religion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ramified Natural Theology in Science and Religion write by Rodney Holder. This book was released on 2020-10-15. Ramified Natural Theology in Science and Religion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book offers a rationale for a new ‘ramified natural theology’ that is in dialogue with both science and historical-critical study of the Bible. Traditionally, knowledge of God has been seen to come from two sources, nature and revelation. However, a rigid separation between these sources cannot be maintained, since what purports to be revelation cannot be accepted without qualification: rational argument is needed to infer both the existence of God from nature and the particular truth claims of the Christian faith from the Bible. Hence the distinction between ‘bare natural theology’ and ‘ramified natural theology.’ The book begins with bare natural theology as background to its main focus on ramified natural theology. Bayesian confirmation theory is utilised to evaluate competing hypotheses in both cases, in a similar manner to that by which competing hypotheses in science can be evaluated on the basis of empirical data. In this way a case is built up for the rationality of a Christian theist worldview. Addressing issues of science, theology and revelation in a new framework, this book will be of keen interest to scholars working in Religion and Science, Natural Theology, Philosophy of Religion, Biblical Studies, Systematic Theology, and Science and Culture.
