Natural Theology

A Reassessment

Andrew Ter Ern Loke (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

310 Seiten

2025
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-98561-9 (ISBN)

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Natural Theology: A Reassessment offers corrections to widespread misinterpretations of the authoritative sources of Christian theology and shows that these sources affirm a traditional view of natural theology that refers to what can be rationally believed about God without using religious doctrines as premises. Contrary to popular misconceptions, Hume and Kant did not successfully rebut the arguments of natural theology, which are still being defended today. This book develops a more rigorous deductively valid formulation of the Cosmological, Teleological, and Moral Arguments for the existence of God and shows how the truth of their premises can be defended, thus demonstrating the soundness of these arguments which show that God exists. Using a unique approach which engages with philosophical theology of both analytic and continental traditions, it offers new arguments to address long-standing problems in epistemology of theology concerning foundationalism, epistemic circularity, divine transcendence, the culturally variant notion of human reason, the lack of consensus among experts, and the accusation of anthropomorphism and ontotheology and provides a thorough response to theological objections, the god-of-the-gaps objection, and the objection that arguments are open to revisions. The author develops an interdisciplinary approach involving theology, philosophy, and science to move the discussion ahead in a new and significant way.

Andrew Ter Ern Loke is an associate professor in the Department of Religion and Philosophy and Research Fellow in the Centre for Sino Christian Studies at Hong Kong Baptist University, and an elected Fellow of the International Society for Science and Religion.

Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. Introduction to the doctrine of revelation and natural theology 2. Introduction to objections and responses 3. An overview of some arguments of natural theology PART II: BIBLICAL AND THEOLOGICAL ISSUES 4. An examination of some scriptural passages relevant to natural theology 5. A reassessment of the biblical-theological issues related to natural theology PART III: PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL ISSUES 6. A brief historical overview and a reassessment of epistemic foundationalism and the problem of epistemic circularity 7. Concerning scientific, deductive and probabilistic reasoning and the nature of faith 8. A reassessment of the epistemological difficulties concerning divine transcendence 9. A reassessment of the epistemological difficulties concerning human limitation PART IV: CONCLUSION 10. The starry heavens above and the moral law within. Bibliography Index

Erscheinungsdatum	15.08.2025
Reihe/Serie	Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	770 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
Themenwelt	Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
ISBN-10	1-032-98561-5 / 1032985615
ISBN-13	978-1-032-98561-9 / 9781032985619
Zustand	Neuware