Natural theology

C.S. Lewis: Mere Christianity C.S. Lewis covers many topics in his fourth book contained in Mere Christianity titled BEYOND PERSONALITY: OR FIRST STEPS IN THE DOCTRINE OF THE TRINITY. He addresses such topics as theology, what it means to be the Son of God, the three personal God, the relationship of God and time, the cost of being a Christian, how God works to turn us into image of Christ, why Christian growth is both hard and easy, and also what he thinks about our old personalities before

only rooted in the mystical teachings of the Catholic faith but is very practical and applicable to the physical and metaphysical worlds. In order to proceed with further explanation, it is import to give a summary of Aquinas’s spirituality and theology, as Torrell does. The reason being, as Torrell puts it, “’Spirituality’ is one of the vaguest terms

environmental situation and the experience of women. The first attribute of Lady Wisdom can be explained through Terence Fretheim’s word in that God created Wisdom but she had also existed from the beginning. Nature and the elements of the natural world noticeably dominate creation and its performance is a fundamental source of wisdom. God’s principle first stated, in terms of creation, that Woman Wisdom is the foundation of moral and cosmic order in the universe. Fretheim exclaimed that she

true nature – worship and praise God? Paul Evdokimov, an Eastern Christian theology, writes in his book, The Art of the Icon: A Theology of Beauty, Beauty redeems humanity and deifies it bringing it back to its original state of worship, peace and harmony. “Beauty is the splendor of truth” (Chapter 1, Part I). It is God. The mystery of God is revealed as humanity encounters Beauty and transcends one’s earthly state. Natural beauty in the created order shines of the light of God but does not bare

sound, and is of spiritual value to the receiver in their own context? At the very basic level of my theology, I believe in a creative force that has brought all things into being, and this force is the ground of all being; it holds all things together and wishes to move all things toward the force’s goal for creation. We can call this the numinous, the mana, the Supreme Being, God—for my theology the term is

and Brunner and various other theologians and their respective counterparts. Karl Barth and Emil Brunner are the giants on the subject of modern theology. Their theological insights are such that even now people are mesmerized by their incredible aptitude for theological understanding and presentation of that framework in a fluid

 Was a philosopher and Christian apologist who taught at Christ’s College, Cambridge. Paley is perhaps best known for his work on natural theology and. In particular, for his articulation of the design argument for the existence of God. • The theology that God existence is the same notion you get when you stub your toe on a stone, people don’t question the stone and the existence of the stone or where it came from so why question the existence of God. The stone was there before you got there. (Paley

Prior to discussing an interpretations of Dewey’s statement, “that learning should occur in the process of experience; that is learning should be incidental to the ongoing natural activity of students rather than the result of teacher-planned activities” one needs to know who John Dewey is (Lumm n.d. p.ara 6). What is his world view? Also, if he was committed to functional psychology than what is it (Lumm. n.d. para 2)? According to Werner Lumm, “Dewey was a committed Humanist”, who was on the

Jewish Philosophers on Reason and Revelation Footnotes are Misssing ABSTRACT: Are reason and revelation different sources of truth? Do they contradict or complement each other? The present essay tries to give an answer to these ancient questions from a Jewish pluralistic point of view. I describe the essential views of the most important representatives of the two main schools of Jewish thought: the rationalists Maimonides, Moses Mendelssohn, and Hermann Cohen, and the antirationalists Judah

and logic over dogma and superstition, which was a part of traditional medieval Christianity. 3) Passage 2, John Locke. Locke argues that reasoning is more than deductive reasoning. Rather than trusting your own ideas, he states that “Reason is natural revelation” in which things created by God are proof enough and need no certainty. Faith is considered as a communication from God. When combining both reason and faith, one will come to know that “whatever God hath revealed is certainly true.” Locke