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Definition of Natural theology
1. Noun. A theology that holds that knowledge of God can be acquired by human reason without the aid of divine revelation.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Natural Theology
Literary usage of Natural theology
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"natural theology: The favorite term in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
... The deists relied exclusively on natural theology, on the ground that the ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1836)
"Part I. A Discourse of natural theology, showing the Nature of the Evidence ...
E importance of natural theology to our present happi- ness and our future ..."
3. History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"1 The ' natural theology ' thus lays the basis of the whole structure. The book,
whatever its philosophical shortcomings, is a marvel of skilful exposition. ..."
4. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1858)
"DISSERTATIONS ON SUBJECTS OF SCIENCE connected with natural theology, 2 vols,
post Svo. ... natural theology. VIII. Rhetorical and Political Dissertations. ..."
5. The Metropolitan (1835)
"CAN you make room for a few remarks on some of the arguments used by Lord Brougham
in his "Discourse of natural theology?" They are but few, though I could ..."
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