natural theology

But he was also a leading opponent of natural theology.

He published important works on plants, animals, and natural theology.

France had its own tradition of religious skepticism and natural theology.

"Natural theology" has no value save where it leans on faith.

It formed a part of the argument from design presented by natural theology.

Natural theology had earlier expected that scientific findings based on empirical evidence would help religious understanding.

From the late 1920s, Brunner had become increasingly interested in the question of natural theology.

The proponents of natural theology were also aware of this.

Brunner, on the other hand, believed that natural theology still had an important, although not decisive, role.

Accordingly, officials viewed direct attacks on natural theology as an abuse of free expression.

He gave the 1891 Gifford lecture on natural theology.

Natural theology is a branch of theology based on reason and ordinary experience.

In Britain the philosophy of natural theology remained influential.

Scientific circles were buzzing with ideas of natural theology.

This strand of natural theology attempts to justify belief in God by independent grounds.

This exemplified the natural theology that Darwin had learnt in previous years.

This has harmed his reputation, though he continued to reject natural theology, and believed that there was a blood relationship between all living things.

Certainly the old synthesis of revealed and natural theology is largely repudiated; officially at least.

The excision of the accretions of natural theology took time and care.

Outside science, evolutionism replaced natural theology as the chief foundation for the attempt to understand the meaning and nature of the material universe.

Here "pneumatology" is what now would be called psychology, and was handled in line with the natural theology of the Enlightenment.

Natural theology sought evidence in nature supporting Christianity.

By its end, I felt as if I had completed a seminary course in natural theology.

It can be described as a natural theology, in which God does not create the universe so much as set it going.

Theologia naturalis (1615) was an apologetical work of natural theology.