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Title

The Oxford handbook of natural theology / edited by Russell Re Manning ; consultant editors: John Hedley Brooke and Fraser Watts.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Re Manning, Russell
• Brooke, John Hedley.
• Watts, Fraser N.

Description

xiv, 632 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

Frequently misunderstood or polemicised, natural theology is an under-studied yet persistent and pervasive presence throughout the history of thought about ultimate reality - from the classical Greek theology of the philosophers to 21st century debates in science and religion.

Series Statement

Oxford handbooks in religion and theology

Uniform Title

Oxford handbooks online.

Alternative Title

Natural theology

Subject

• Natural theology
• Natural theology > History of doctrines
• Teleology
• Creation
• God > Proof, Teleological

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• pt. I. Historical perspectives on natural theology. The classical origins of natural theology / Stephen R.L. Clark -- Natural theology and the Christian Bible / Christopher Rowland -- Natural theology in the patristic period / Wayne Hankey -- Natural theology in the Middle Ages / Alexander W. Hall -- Early modern natural theologies / Scott Mandelbrote -- Nineteenth-century natural theology / Matthew D. Eddy -- Natural theology in the twentieth century / Rodney D. Holder -- pt. II. Theological perspectives on natural theology. Jewish perspectives on natural theology / Daniel H. Frank -- Islamic perspectives on natural theology / Robert G. Morrison -- Natural theology in Eastern religions / Jessica Frazier -- Catholic perspectives on natural theology / Denis Edwards -- Protestant perspectives on natural theology / Russell Re Manning -- Natural theology and the Eastern Orthodox tradition / Christopher C. Knight --
• Theological critiques of natural theology / Andrew Moore -- pt. III. Philosophical perspectives on natural theology. Perspectives on natural theology from analytic philosophy / Keith M. Parsons -- A perspective on natural theology from continental philosophy / Russell Re Manning -- Process thought and natural theology / David Ray Griffin -- The design argument and natural theology / Neil A. Manson -- Morality and natural theology / William Schweiker -- Religious experience and natural theology / Mark Wynn -- Postmodernism and natural theology / Clayton Crockett -- Feminist perspectives on natural theology / Pamela Sue Anderson -- Comparative natural theology / Wesley J. Wildman -- Philosophical critique of natural theology / Charles Taliaferro -- pt. IV. Scientific perspectives on natural theology. Natural theology: the biological sciences / Michael Ruse -- The physical sciences and natural theology / Paul Ewart --
• Chemical sciences and natural theology / David Knight -- Mathematics and natural theology / John Polkinghorne -- Natural theology and ecology / Christopher Southgate -- Natural theology and the mind sciences / Fraser Watts -- A sociological perspective on natural theology / Richard K. Fenn -- Scientific critiques of natural theology / Philip Clayton -- pt. V. Perspectives on natural theology from the arts. Aesthetics and the arts in relation to natural theology / Frank Burch Brown -- Imagination and natural theology / Douglas Hedley -- Natural theology and literature / Guy Bennett-Hunter -- Natural theology and music / Jeremy S. Begbie -- Images in natural theology / Kristóf Nyíri -- The film viewer and natural theology: God's 'presence' at the movies / Robert K. Johnston.

ISBN

• 9780199556939 (hbk.)
• 0199556938 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 810946286
• SCSB-11858435

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library