The Connection of Natural and Revealed Theology
Title | The Connection of Natural and Revealed Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Edward William Grinfield |
Publisher | |
Pages | 630 |
Release | 1818 |
Genre | Apologetics |
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Natural and Revealed Theology
Title | Natural and Revealed Theology PDF eBook |
Author | John Jay Butler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 1861 |
Genre | Theology, Doctrinal |
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The Failure of Natural Theology
Title | The Failure of Natural Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey D Johnson |
Publisher | New Studies in Theology Series |
Pages | 266 |
Release | 2021-09-15 |
Genre | Natural theology |
ISBN | 9781952599378 |
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.
Natural Theology; Or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature
Title | Natural Theology; Or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | William Paley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1822 |
Genre | Natural history |
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Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion
Title | Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Priestley |
Publisher | |
Pages | 478 |
Release | 1782 |
Genre | Natural theology |
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The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Harrison |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 323 |
Release | 2010-06-24 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0521712513 |
This book explores the historical relations between science and religion and discusses contemporary issues with perspectives from cosmology, evolutionary biology and bioethics.
Evidences of Natural and Revealed Theology
Title | Evidences of Natural and Revealed Theology PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Eliphalet Lord |
Publisher | |
Pages | 592 |
Release | 1869 |
Genre | Natural theology |
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