Author: Edward William GrinfieldPublisher:
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Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
The Connection of Natural and Revealed Theology
Author: Edward William GrinfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Apologetics
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Natural and Revealed Theology
Author: John Jay ButlerPublisher:
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Category : Theology, Doctrinal
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The Failure of Natural Theology
Author: Jeffrey D JohnsonPublisher: New Studies in Theology Series
ISBN: 9781952599378
Category : Natural theology
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
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.
Institutes of Natural and Revealed Religion
Author: Joseph PriestleyPublisher:
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Category : Natural theology
Languages : en
Pages : 478
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The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion
Author: Peter HarrisonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521712513
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
This book explores the historical relations between science and religion and discusses contemporary issues with perspectives from cosmology, evolutionary biology and bioethics.
Natural Theology; Or Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, Collected from the Appearances of Nature
Author: William PaleyPublisher:
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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Evidences of Natural and Revealed Theology
Author: Charles Eliphalet LordPublisher:
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Category : Natural theology
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
A Compendious View of the Evidences of Natural and Revealed Religion ...
Author: Alexander GerardPublisher:
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Category : Religious thought
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
CONNECTION OF NATURAL & REVEAL
Author: Edward William 1785-1864 GrinfieldPublisher: Wentworth Press
ISBN: 9781361259498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
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On a Complex Theory of a Simple God
Author: Christopher HughesPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801417597
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Hughes discusses Aquinus' work regarding the apparently irreconcilable theses of natural and revealed theology, and he argues that Aquinas fails in his attempt to reconcile absolute simplicity with the doctrines of the Trinity and the Incarnation. Hughes also offers a provocative account of divine simplicity and explores its implications for the Thomistic doctrines of the Trinity and Incarnation.