Natural Theology
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- Created on: 30-01-19 14:22
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- Natural Knowledge of God
- Goodness
- Calvin called the conscience the God-given faculty to be moral. Conscience means joint-knowledge: joint between God and man.
- Beauty
- Augustine believe that what we see as beautiful are reflections of "The beautiful one"
- This is seen through the natural world
- Augustine believe that what we see as beautiful are reflections of "The beautiful one"
- Reason
- Reason gives us the logic that cannot be disputed
- Aquinas took from Aristotle the basis of his Five Ways which were attempts to show the Ways we can know God.
- Calvin + the Sensus Divinitatis
- Sees the human mind as fallen + as such incapable of knowing God unless God directly chooses to reveal himself to that person
- All knowledge of God comes from Christ
making it possible for us to overcome Original Sin and know God.
- Plantinga
- Evidence to support
- Since God is too great for finite minds, He has placed signs to Himself in the beauty and majesty of creation.
- Natural knowledge of God
- the process of learning about God from the natural world using reason
- Aquinas
- Nicholas Lash
- Goodness
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