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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"Natural Theology"”.
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Natural theology and natural philosophy in the late Renaissance
… understand the religious context of early modern natural philosophy. Despite some great strides in relating certain areas of Christian doctrine to the study of the natural world, the category ‘natural theology’ has often been subject to anachronism and misunderstanding. The term itself is …
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God and Nature: Retrieving Herman Bavinck's Approach to Natural Theology
… Christian theological account of the project of natural theology, especially by putting Herman Bavinck in dialogue with contemporary alternatives today. In its methodology, the study aims to further the recent trend in Bavinck studies of moving beyond the “two Bavincks” thesis into an integrated, …
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Aliens and atheists: The Plurality of Worlds and Natural Theology in Seventeenth-Century England.
… of plurality as presented by English natural philosophers and theologians, and in so doing reveals much about England in the seventeenth century. As natural philosophers incorporated plurality within the larger framework of natural theology, it became a weapon of science and reason to …
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À mes amis qui croient et à ceux qui croient ne pas croire: Natural Knowledge of God and the Propulsion of Reason in Henri de Lubac; A Re-assessment
… of the place and significance of the natural light of human reason in attaining knowledge of God according to the thought of Henri de Lubac. In the Anglophone theological literature of the later twentieth century, a notable consensus has emerged that de Lubac’s celebrated text, …
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The Apologetics of Thomas Chalmers: The influences, methods, and effects of chalmers’ rebuttals to objections to christianity
… within that goal, he modifies the then existing natural theological arguments to conform to his philosophical views. This research reveals that Chalmers’ apologetic arguments, which reflect the prevailing approach of Natural Theology, contain numerous distinctive rebuttals to Hume’s theistic …
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Reforming Virtue: Bavinck's Method of Engaging with Virtue Ethics from a Reformed Perspective
… in the Reformed tradition to engage with natural theology and scholarship in the study of, among other things, virtue ethics. This thesis attempts to demonstrate that Herman Bavinck’s four pillars of reformed dogmatics allows reformed ethicists to robustly engage in the study of virtue …
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The doctrine of revelation in the theology of Thomas F. Torrance
… of the place of the Bible and nature in theology points to them both as places of divine self-revelation. There is a gracing of all knowledge of God whether in Christ, Scripture or nature which means that God is always sovereign of his self-revelation. In his engagement with the writings …
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The Argument from Design with special reference to Paley and Darwin and its significance for contemporary Christian apologetic
… of Paley's presentation of the Argument in his Natural Theology, and an assessment of its strengths and weaknesses in the light of later developments of thought. This is followed by a statement and appraisal of the philosophical criticism to which the Argument was subjected by Kant and Hume. It …
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Pain, Human Redemption, and Medicine: James Hinton's Theological Appropriation of Pain
Hinton's theology of pain posits that an individual's suffering contributes to God's redemptive work in the world. This dissertation explores Hinton's theological appropriation of pain in four ways. First, we examine Hinton's life and writings to establish his personal interest about pain. Factors …
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Science Under Siege: Joseph Henry's Smithsonian, 1846--1865
… in 1865. As the leading antebellum patron of the natural, physical, and social sciences in the United States, the Smithsonian exerted great force on the shape of the American scientific community. The Institution, in turn, was shaped by political concerns, demands for practical applications of …
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From revelation to resource: the natural world in the thought and experience of Quakers in Britain and Ireland, 1647-1830
This thesis explores the place of the natural world in the spiritual and intellectual lives of British and Irish Quakers (Friends) from the earliest evidence in 1647 up to the rise of evangelical Quakerism around 1830. Whilst Quakers agreed that God had made and continued to uphold the creation, …
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Claiming Primordial Landscapes: Science and Imperialism in Turn-of-the-Century Science Fiction Novels
… of the protagonists. Systems of thought such as natural theology justify not only the right of the characters to explore other nations, but also the right of the explorers to use the colonized country’s resources for their own personal gain. The methodology of science—particularly the recording …
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Reinhold Niebuhr and an Ethic of Humility in Deliberative Politics
… times may disavowal Niebuhr's understanding of natural theology, his correspondent political realism, or otherwise miscategorize Niebuhr's political claims. The degree to which Niebuhr's ethical framework can or should be separated from Christian considerations of ethics more broadly, especially …
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Haydn's Creation as a Musical Response to the Enlightenment
… tenets of Enlightenment thought, specifically natural theology and philosophical naturalism, mark both the libretto and certain aspects of the music of Haydn's Creation. The opening chapters of the dissertation establish the philosophical, historical, literary, and musical milieu as shaped by …
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"Whether God exists"
… that it fails, that the theist should abandon natural theology. Therefore, holding the fideist/voluntarist position, or that God is in fact indifferent to us, are found to be stronger stances.
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Theology and Reality: Critical Realism in the Thought of Alister E. McGrath
… being postliberalism), the concept of nature, natural theology, and the science-theology dialogue. Chapter 4 provides a critical evaluation of McGrath's use of critical realism. A number of positive conclusions about McGrath's use of critical realism are drawn, yet where McGrath has made …
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